Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 17/38] block: Add BlockBackendRootState

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 18.09.2015 um 17:22 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> This structure will store some of the state of the root BDS if the BDS
> tree is removed, so that state can be restored once a new BDS tree is
> inserted.

This is magic that is bound to bite us sooner or later. I see that we
have to do this in order to maintain compatibility, but imagine we'll
have multiple BlockBackends sitting on top of the same BDS. They'll be
fighting for whose throttling settings are applied. With this approach,
the winner is the BlockBackend that most recently went from no medium to
medium, which might just be the most surprising way to solve the
problem.

I'll detail one aspect of the problem below.

The correct way to solve this seems to be that each BB has its own I/O
throttling filter. Actually, if we could lift the throttling code to
BlockBackend, that might solve the problem.

I guess the same applies for the other fields in BlockBackendRootState.

> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/block-backend.c          | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/block/block_int.h      | 10 ++++++++++
>  include/qemu/typedefs.h        |  1 +
>  include/sysemu/block-backend.h |  2 ++
>  4 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c
> index 1f2cd9b..9590be5 100644
> --- a/block/block-backend.c
> +++ b/block/block-backend.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>  #include "block/block_int.h"
>  #include "block/blockjob.h"
> +#include "block/throttle-groups.h"
>  #include "sysemu/blockdev.h"
>  #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>  #include "qapi-event.h"
> @@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ struct BlockBackend {
>      /* the block size for which the guest device expects atomicity */
>      int guest_block_size;
>  
> +    /* If the BDS tree is removed, some of its options are stored here (which
> +     * can be used to restore those options in the new BDS on insert) */
> +    BlockBackendRootState root_state;
> +
>      /* I/O stats (display with "info blockstats"). */
>      BlockAcctStats stats;
>  
> @@ -161,6 +166,7 @@ static void blk_delete(BlockBackend *blk)
>          bdrv_unref(blk->bs);
>          blk->bs = NULL;
>      }
> +    g_free(blk->root_state.throttle_group_name);
>      /* Avoid double-remove after blk_hide_on_behalf_of_hmp_drive_del() */
>      if (blk->name[0]) {
>          QTAILQ_REMOVE(&blk_backends, blk, link);
> @@ -1050,3 +1056,34 @@ int blk_probe_geometry(BlockBackend *blk, HDGeometry 
> *geo)
>  {
>      return bdrv_probe_geometry(blk->bs, geo);
>  }
> +
> +/*
> + * Updates the BlockBackendRootState object with data from the currently
> + * attached BlockDriverState.
> + */
> +void blk_update_root_state(BlockBackend *blk)
> +{
> +    assert(blk->bs);
> +
> +    blk->root_state.open_flags    = blk->bs->open_flags;
> +    blk->root_state.read_only     = blk->bs->read_only;
> +    blk->root_state.detect_zeroes = blk->bs->detect_zeroes;
> +
> +    blk->root_state.io_limits_enabled = blk->bs->io_limits_enabled;
> +
> +    g_free(blk->root_state.throttle_group_name);
> +    if (blk->bs->throttle_state) {
> +        throttle_get_config(blk->bs->throttle_state,
> +                            &blk->root_state.throttle_config);
> +        blk->root_state.throttle_group_name =
> +            g_strdup(throttle_group_get_name(blk->bs));

The throttling group name is essentially a weak reference. I think
making it strong is worth considering.

If you attach a new BDS, if the old throttling group still exists, the
new BDS is re-added there, as expected. If the throttling group has got
changed limits meanwhile, you need to choose whether to apply the limits
saved here or use the new limits for the BDS. I guess the latter will be
the correct choice.

If the old throttling group doesn't exist any more, a new one is created
with the old name and limits. If two BlockBackends eject their media at
separate times and the throttle group goes away, reinstantiating the
throttle group by attaching a BDS to both BBs will use the config of the
BB that got a new medium first (as opposed to: the latest setting the
throttling group had before it was freed).

If the old throttling group was freed, but then a new throttling group
was created with the same name, we get attached to that new group with
its new limits. This could be slightly surprising as well.

Kevin