Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v7 0/8] block: Mirror discarded sectors

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

Hi,

>>There is no problem, the observasion by Andrey was just that qmp command 
>>takes 
>>a few minutes before returning, because he didn't apply 
>>
>>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02511.html 

Is this patch already apply on the block tree ?

With nfs as source storage, it's really slow currently (lseek slow + a lot of 
nfs ops).



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De: "Fam Zheng" <address@hidden>
À: "pbonzini" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <address@hidden>, address@hidden, "Jeff Cody" 
<address@hidden>, "qemu-devel" <address@hidden>, "qemu-stable" 
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Envoyé: Jeudi 25 Juin 2015 12:45:38
Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v7 0/8] block: Mirror discarded 
sectors

On Thu, 06/25 09:02, Fam Zheng wrote: 
> On Wed, 06/24 19:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On 24/06/2015 11:08, Fam Zheng wrote: 
> > >> Stefan, 
> > >> 
> > >> The only controversial patches are the qmp/drive-mirror ones (1-3), 
> > >> while 
> > >> patches 4-8 are still useful on their own: they fix the mentioned crash 
> > >> and 
> > >> improve iotests. 
> > >> 
> > >> Shall we merge the second half (of course none of them depend on 1-3) 
> > >> now that 
> > >> softfreeze is approaching? 
> > > 
> > > Stefan, would you consider applying patches 4-8? 
> > 
> > Actually why not apply all of them? Even if blockdev-mirror is a 
> > superior interface in the long run, the current behavior of drive-mirror 
> > can cause images to balloon up to the full size, which is bad. 
> > Extending drive-mirror is okay IMHO for 2.4. 
> > 
> 
> Before we do that, Andrey Korolyov has reported a hang issue with unmap=true, 
> I'll take a look at it today. 

There is no problem, the observasion by Andrey was just that qmp command takes 
a few minutes before returning, because he didn't apply 

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-05/msg02511.html 

Fam