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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] iotests: Tweak 030 in order to trigger a rac
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John Snow |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] iotests: Tweak 030 in order to trigger a race condition with parallel jobs |
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Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:35:50 -0500 |
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On 12/13/2017 10:44 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> This patch tweaks TestParallelOps in iotest 030 so it allocates data
> in smaller regions (256KB/512KB instead of 512KB/1MB) and the
> block-stream job in test_stream_commit() only needs to copy data that
> is at the very end of the image.
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> This way when the block-stream job is awakend it will finish right
> away without any chance of being stopped by block_job_sleep_ns(). This
> triggers the bug that was fixed by 3d5d319e1221082974711af1d09d82f07
> and is therefore a more useful test case for parallel block jobs.
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> After this patch the aforementiond bug can also be reproduced with the
> test_stream_parallel() test case.
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> Since with this change the stream job in test_stream_commit() finishes
> early, this patch introduces a similar test case where both jobs are
> slowed down so they can actually run in parallel.
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> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <address@hidden>