Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] block: Coroutine support

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> Depends on Stefan's latest coroutine patches. This series makes qcow and qcow2
> take advantage of the new coroutine infrastructure. Both formats used
> synchronous operations for accessing their metadata and blocked the guest CPU
> during that time. With coroutines, the I/O will happen asynchronously in the
> background and the CPU won't be blocked any more.
>
> Kevin Wolf (10):
>  block: Add bdrv_co_readv/writev
>  block: Emulate AIO functions with bdrv_co_readv/writev
>  block: Add bdrv_co_readv/writev emulation
>  coroutines: Locks
>  qcow2: Use coroutines
>  qcow: Use coroutines
>  async: Remove AsyncContext
>  coroutines: Use one global bottom half for CoQueue
>  posix-aio-compat: Allow read after EOF
>  block: Use bdrv_co_* instead of synchronous versions in coroutines
>
>  Makefile.objs         |    4 +-
>  async.c               |   98 ++-----------------
>  block.c               |  271 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  block.h               |    5 +
>  block/qcow.c          |  180 +++++++++++---------------------
>  block/qcow2-cluster.c |   26 ++---
>  block/qcow2.c         |  240 ++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  block/qcow2.h         |    5 +-
>  block/qed-table.c     |   14 ---
>  block/qed.c           |    4 -
>  block_int.h           |    6 +
>  linux-aio.c           |   43 +-------
>  posix-aio-compat.c    |   30 ++++--
>  qemu-common.h         |    4 -
>  qemu-coroutine-int.h  |    1 +
>  qemu-coroutine-lock.c |  117 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  qemu-coroutine.h      |   64 ++++++++++++
>  trace-events          |   11 ++
>  18 files changed, 659 insertions(+), 464 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 qemu-coroutine-lock.c

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>