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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-8.0] ide: Fix manual in-flight count for TRIM BH
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:09:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f060c5ab-f60e-a0a4-6415-f4ace8db479e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bc7a6d8-744e-9593-1de0-88f19a1e1bc1@proxmox.com>

On 3/13/23 13:29, Fiona Ebner wrote:
>> In fact, shouldn't request queuing was enabled at the _end_ of
>> bdrv_drained_begin (once the BlockBackend has reached a quiescent
>> state on its own terms), rather than at the beginning (which leads to
>> deadlocks like this one)?
>
> Couldn't this lead to scenarios where a busy or malicious guest, which
> continues to submit new requests, slows down draining or even prevents
> it from finishing?

Possibly, but there is also a .drained_begin/.drained_end callback that 
can be defined in order to apply backpressure.  (For some other devices, 
there's also aio_disable_external/aio_enable_external that do the 
equivalent of request queuing but without the deadlocks)

Since starting the queuing of requests at the end of bdrv_drained_begin 
wouldn't hurt correctness, and it would fix this kind of deadlock, I 
think it would be worth giving it a try.

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-09 11:44 [PATCH for-8.0] ide: Fix manual in-flight count for TRIM BH Hanna Czenczek
2023-03-09 12:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-03-09 12:08   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-03-09 12:31     ` Hanna Czenczek
2023-03-09 13:59       ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-03-09 17:46         ` Kevin Wolf
2023-03-10 13:05           ` Fiona Ebner
2023-03-10 14:25             ` Kevin Wolf
2023-03-10 15:13               ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-03-13 12:29                 ` Fiona Ebner
2023-03-13 13:09                   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2023-03-13 16:32                 ` Kevin Wolf
2023-03-14  9:42                   ` Paolo Bonzini

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