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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2] blockdev: acquire aio_context for bitmap add
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2] blockdev: acquire aio_context for bitmap add/remove |
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Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:16:49 -0600 |
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On 2/12/19 2:07 PM, John Snow wrote:
> When bitmaps are persistent, they may incur a disk read or write when bitmaps
> are added or removed. For configurations like virtio-dataplane, failing to
> acquire this lock will abort QEMU when disk IO occurs.
>
> We used to acquire aio_context as part of the bitmap lookup, so re-introduce
> the lock for just the cases that have an IO penalty.
It would be nice to call out which commit id dropped the aio_context
acquisition during bitmap lookup (making it easier to analyze how long
this has broken, and which downstream builds need the backport.
>
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672010
> Reported-By: Aihua Liang <address@hidden>
> ---
> blockdev.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
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