Re: [Qemu-devel] Block layer meeting notes from June 10/11

[Benoît Canet]

The Friday 13 Jun 2014 à 16:17:34 (+0200), Benoît Canet wrote :
> The Friday 13 Jun 2014 à 09:53:55 (-0400), Jeff Cody wrote :
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:28:28PM +0800, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > >
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > >  * Mutual exclusion of operations/background jobs (bs->in_use / 
> > > BlockOpType)
> > >   * Streaming in two different parts of the backing chain - allowed?
> > > (Benoît though that not, but does anything break?)
> > >   * Does streaming only require that streamed images stay read-only
> > > (i.e. backing chain segment on which the operation is performed)
> > >   * Live commit in the opposite direction at the same time?
> > > 
> > > Action:
> > >  * Draw up matrix of operations (mirror, stream, resize, etc)
> > >  * Make op blocker mechanism use matrix as data instead of code
> > > (define an array)
> > >  * Enforce that new QMP/QAPI commands and block jobs add themselves to
> > > the matrix
> > >  * Recursively add blockers to child nodes (driver method?) [Benoit]
> > > 
> > 
> > Benoit, you have quite a few items on your list - would it be useful
> > if I worked on this?  It would dovetail nicely with the node-name
> > commit/stream patches.

Still I need to do some work in order to bill my customer ;)

> 
> Ok as you want tell me want you want to take I'll do the rest.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Benoît
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff
> >