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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v10 03/16] block: Use block_job_add_bdrv() in mi


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v10 03/16] block: Use block_job_add_bdrv() in mirror_start_job()
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:20:17 +0200
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On 10/10/2016 18:03, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> > Use block_job_add_bdrv() instead of blocking all operations in
>> > mirror_start_job() and unblocking them in mirror_exit().
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> Compared to the old code, this unblocks BLOCK_OP_TYPE_DATAPLANE, i.e.
> you can now run a dataplane device on a BDS used as the mirror target.
> 
> This means that the target could require a different AioContext than the
> source, which we can't support. So it seems unlikely to me that we can
> lift this restriction.

Indeed, this is in the pipeline, but still quite far away!

Paolo



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