Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/19] block: Don't manually poll in bdrv_drain_all()

[Eric Blake]

On 04/11/2018 11:39 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> All involved nodes are already idle, we called bdrv_do_draine_begin() on

s/draine/drain/

> them.
> 
> The comment in the code suggested that this were not correct because the

s/were/was/

> completion of a request on one node could spawn a new request on a
> different node (which might have been drained before, so we wouldn't
> drain the new request). In reality, new requests to different nodes
> aren't spawned out of nothing, but only in the context of a parent
> request, and they aren't submitted to random nodes, but only to child
> nodes. As long as we still poll for the completion of the parent request
> (which we do), draining each root node separately is good enough.
> 
> Remove the additional polling code from bdrv_drain_all_begin() and
> replace it with an assertion that all nodes are already idle after we
> drained them separately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/io.c | 41 ++++++++++++-----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 

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