Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] block/rbd: migrate to coroutines and add write zeroes support

[Ilya Dryomov]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 7:24 PM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This series migrates the qemu rbd driver from the old aio emulation
> to native coroutines and adds write zeroes support which is important
> for block operations.
>
> To achieve this we first bump the librbd requirement to the already
> outdated luminous release of ceph to get rid of some wrappers and
> ifdef'ry in the code.
>
> V4->V5:
>  - rebase on Kevin's block branch (https://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin.git block)
>    to resolve conflicts with "block/rbd: Add support for rbd image encryption"
>    patch
>
> V3->V4:
>  - this patch is now rebased on top of current master
>  - Patch 1: just mention librbd, tweak version numbers [Ilya]
>  - Patch 3: use rbd_get_size instead of rbd_stat [Ilya]
>  - Patch 4: retain comment about using a BH in the callback [Ilya]
>  - Patch 5: set BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK and silently ignore BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP 
> [Ilya]
>
> V2->V3:
>  - this patch is now rebased on top of current master
>  - Patch 1: only use cc.links and not cc.run to not break
>    cross-compiling. [Kevin]
>    Since Qemu 6.1 its okay to rely on librbd >= 12.x since RHEL-7
>    support was dropped [Daniel]
>  - Patch 4: dropped
>  - Patch 5: store BDS in RBDTask and use bdrv_get_aio_context() [Kevin]
>
> V1->V2:
>  - this patch is now rebased on top of current master with Paolos
>    upcoming fixes for the meson.build script included:
>     - meson: accept either shared or static libraries if --disable-static
>     - meson: honor --enable-rbd if cc.links test fails
>  - Patch 1: adjusted to meson.build script
>  - Patch 2: unchanged
>  - Patch 3: new patch
>  - Patch 4: do not implement empty detach_aio_context callback [Jason]
>  - Patch 5: - fix aio completion cleanup in error case [Jason]
>             - return error codes from librbd
>  - Patch 6: - add support for thick provisioning [Jason]
>             - do not set write zeroes alignment
>  - Patch 7: new patch
>
> Peter Lieven (6):
>   block/rbd: bump librbd requirement to luminous release
>   block/rbd: store object_size in BDRVRBDState
>   block/rbd: update s->image_size in qemu_rbd_getlength
>   block/rbd: migrate from aio to coroutines
>   block/rbd: add write zeroes support
>   block/rbd: drop qemu_rbd_refresh_limits
>
>  block/rbd.c | 406 ++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
>  meson.build |   7 +-
>  2 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.19.2
>

Attempting to suit patchew:

Based-on: <20210627114635.39326-1-oro@il.ibm.com>
([PATCH v2] block/rbd: Add support for rbd image encryption)

Thanks,

                Ilya