Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] nbd: Use BlockBackend

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:21:13PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
> From the block layer's perspective, the nbd server is pretty similar to
> a guest device. Therefore, it should use BlockBackend to access block
> devices, just like any other guest device does.
> 
> This series consequently makes the nbd server use BlockBackend for
> referencing block devices.
> 
> 
> v2:
> - Added patch 6, which converts qemu-nbd to BlockBackend as far as
>   reasonable [Paolo]
> 
> 
> git-backport-diff against v1:
> 
> Key:
> [----] : patches are identical
> [####] : number of functional differences between upstream/downstream patch
> [down] : patch is downstream-only
> The flags [FC] indicate (F)unctional and (C)ontextual differences, 
> respectively
> 
> 001/6:[----] [--] 'block: Lift more functions into BlockBackend'
> 002/6:[----] [--] 'block: Add AioContextNotifier functions to BB'
> 003/6:[----] [--] 'block: Add blk_add_close_notifier() for BB'
> 004/6:[----] [--] 'nbd: Change external interface to BlockBackend'
> 005/6:[----] [--] 'nbd: Use BlockBackend internally'
> 006/6:[down] 'qemu-nbd: Use BlockBackend where reasonable'
> 
> 
> Max Reitz (6):
>   block: Lift more functions into BlockBackend
>   block: Add AioContextNotifier functions to BB
>   block: Add blk_add_close_notifier() for BB
>   nbd: Change external interface to BlockBackend
>   nbd: Use BlockBackend internally
>   qemu-nbd: Use BlockBackend where reasonable
> 
>  block/block-backend.c          | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  blockdev-nbd.c                 | 15 +++++-----
>  include/block/nbd.h            |  7 ++---
>  include/sysemu/block-backend.h | 12 ++++++++
>  nbd.c                          | 63 
> +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  qemu-nbd.c                     | 12 ++++----
>  6 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 
> 

Thanks, applied to my block-next tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block-next

Stefan

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