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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 00/13] block: Move I/O throttling to BlockBac


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 00/13] block: Move I/O throttling to BlockBackend
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:21:31 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01)

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 07:42:29PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This is another feature that was "logically" part of the BlockBackend, but
> implemented as a BlockDriverState feature. It was always kept on top using
> swap_feature_fields().
> 
> This series moves it to be actually implemented in the BlockBackend, removing
> another obstacle for removing bs->blk and allowing multiple BBs per BDS.
> 
> Applies to block-next.
> 
> v2:
> - Rebased on top of Paolo's 'bdrv_flush_io_queue removal, shared 
> LinuxAioState'
>   Most notable this includes a complete rewrite of patch 9 (was 10): 'block:
>   Drain throttling queue with BdrvChild'. Instead of a single drain_queue()
>   callback we now have a drained_begin/end() pair.
> 
> - Patch 2 (was 3): 'block: Introduce BlockBackendPublic'
>   Add int dummy to yet empty struct BlockBackendPublic [Eric]
> 
> - Patch 11: 'block: Remove bdrv_move_feature_fields()'
>   After the rebase, the function ended up empty, we can remove it now
> 
> - Patch 12: 'Revert "block: Forbid I/O throttling on nodes with
>              multiple parents for 2.6"'
>   This was committed to master after v1 had been posted, so this one is new as
>   well. The reason for forbidding this was that patch 6 ('block: Move actual
>   I/O throttling to BlockBackend') would change the behaviour of the non-BB
>   parents. Now that the final behaviour is implemented, we can allow the 
> setup.

I have posted comments.  Looks good overall.

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