Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: cancel jobs when a device is ready to go away

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 30.03.2012 13:17, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> We do not want jobs to keep a device busy for a possibly very long
> time, and management could become confused because they thought a
> device was not even there anymore.  So, cancel long-running jobs
> as soon as their device is going to disappear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

Shouldn't management tools know what jobs they have running?

We can take this for now, but once we switch to blockdev-add/del,
management tools will have to be explicit about the BlockDriverState
deletion (and I think the right semantics there is that it fails if jobs
are still running).

Kevin