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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 6/9] blkdebug: Sanity check block layer guara


From: Max Reitz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 6/9] blkdebug: Sanity check block layer guarantees
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:36:51 +0100
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On 17.11.2016 21:13, Eric Blake wrote:
> Commits 04ed95f4 and 1a62d0ac updated the block layer to auto-fragment
> any I/O to fit within device boundaries. Additionally, when using a
> minimum alignment of 4k, we want to ensure the block layer does proper
> read-modify-write rather than requesting I/O on a slice of a sector.
> Let's enforce that the contract is obeyed when using blkdebug.  For
> now, blkdebug only allows alignment overrides, and just inherits other
> limits from whatever device it is wrapping, but a future patch will
> further enhance things.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/blkdebug.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

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