Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 20/23] monitor: enable IO thread for (qmp & !mux) typed

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 03/23/2018 01:25 PM, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:10:51PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> As Max Reitz said, this breaks several qemu iotests. I can reproduce that on 
>> s390
>> e.g. with ./check -qcow2 030 in the qemu-iotest.
>>
>> Why was this merged?
> 
> My fault.  Sorry.  I should have done iotests before submission.
> 
> Now I'm trying to fix those iotest issues.
> 
> I'm not extremely familiar with block, so the progress is a bit slow,
> but I'll do it asap (though I'll possibly need some help from the
> block team, since there are some not-easy ones for me).

As this patch also seems to trigger something else for Eric, can we revert this
patch for the time being and re-apply as soon as we have solutions for the 
issues?

After all a hard hang in the iotest can break CI environments (as you run into 
timeouts).