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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 12/24] virtio-blk: Functions for op blocker m
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 12/24] virtio-blk: Functions for op blocker management |
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Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:43:47 +0100 |
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Am 26.11.2015 um 08:48 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 05:26:02PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
> > On 25.11.2015 17:18, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > Am 25.11.2015 um 17:03 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> > >> On 25.11.2015 16:57, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > >>> Am 09.11.2015 um 23:39 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> > >>> This makes me wonder: What do we even block here any more? If I didn't
> > >>> miss anything, it's only BLOCK_OP_TYPE_BACKUP_TARGET, and I'm not sure
> > >>> why this needs to be blocked, or if we simply forgot to enable it.
> > >>
> > >> Well, even though in practice this wall of code doesn't make much sense,
> > >> of course it will be safe for potential additions of new op blockers.
> > >>
> > >> And of course we actually don't want these blockers at all anymore...
> > >
> > > Yes, but dataplane shouldn't really be special enough any more that we
> > > want to disable features for it initially. By now it sounds more like an
> > > easy way to forget unblocking a new feature even though it would work.
> > >
> > > So perhaps we should really just remove the blockers from dataplane.
> > > Then we don't have to answer the question above...
> >
> > Well, maybe. I guess this is up to Stefan.
>
> At this point blockdev.c and block jobs acquire/release AioContext,
> hence all these op blockers are being unblocked. I think we can switch
> from whitelisting (unblocking) nearly everything to blacklisting
> (blocking) only things that aren't supported yet.
As I said, there is only one operation that isn't whitelisted today,
BLOCK_OP_TYPE_BACKUP_TARGET, and I would be surprised if it weren't just
a bug that it's not whitelisted yet.
Kevin
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- [Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 10/24] iotests: Add test for eject under NBD server, (continued)
[Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 13/24] virtio-scsi: Catch BDS-BB removal/insertion, Max Reitz, 2015/11/09
[Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 14/24] nbd: Switch from close to eject notifier, Max Reitz, 2015/11/09
[Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 15/24] block: Remove BDS close notifier, Max Reitz, 2015/11/09
[Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 16/24] block: Use blk_remove_bs() in blk_delete(), Max Reitz, 2015/11/09
[Qemu-block] [PATCH v7 17/24] blockdev: Use blk_remove_bs() in do_drive_del(), Max Reitz, 2015/11/09