Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 00/16] AioContext fine-grained locking, part 1 of 3, including bdrv_drain rewrite

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:29:02PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 16/03/2016 19:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Looks good overall.  I'm a little nervous about merging it for QEMU 2.6
> > but the block job, NBD, and data plane tests should give it a good
> > workout.
> 
> Apart from QEMU nearing hard freeze, I totally understand not wanting to
> commit to merging part 1 of n where n will probably be a dozen or so.
> I'm open to experimenting with different models for handling long-term
> contributions.
> 
> For example, each part will probably have an uncontroversial and
> generally useful prefix---for example patches 1-4 in this case, or the
> change to a single linux-aio context per iothread.  You could merge
> those only, and for the rest, I will maintain myself a branch with R-b
> from maintainers.  Master will be periodically merged into it, but not
> too frequently---it could be only after each part is accepted, or when
> there is some important bugfix to catch.  Once the whole multiqueue
> thing gets somewhere I would send you a pull request with the entire
> feature, which would consist of say 200 patches all with a Reviewed-by
> already.
> 
> This is just a possibility; if you have any other idea, I'd be happy to
> follow it.

That sounds reasonable.  I guess you are sending a) infrastructure and safe
changes alongside b) longer-term work.  If you indicate which patches
are a) then that makes it easier to merge parts into qemu.git before all
the long-term work is complete.

Stefan

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