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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] virtio: cleanup ioeventfd start/stop


From: Christian Borntraeger
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] virtio: cleanup ioeventfd start/stop
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:45:24 +0200
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On 09/21/2016 06:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 21/09/2016 16:01, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 09/21/2016 03:18 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> This series started as an attempt to always use the dataplane path
>>> for virtio-blk and virtio-scsi when ioeventfd is active.  The aim
>>> was three-fold:
>>>
>>> 1) to add more coverage for dataplane
>>>
>>> 2) to remove virtio_add_queue_aio
>>>
>>> 3) to simplify the dataplane start/stop code
>>>
>>> It achieves the first two objectives, and while it doesn't quite
>>> achieve the third it does cleanup the generic ioeventfd code in
>>> virtio-bus more than I expected.  In particular, it reduces the set
>>> of callbacks that transports must implement, and it removes the ugly
>>> case where ioeventfd is started with generic callbacks and then moved
>>> to the dataplane callbacks.  It also enables some simplification of the
>>> functions that deal with host notifiers.
>>>
>>> I've tested it with virtio-blk, virtio-scsi and vhost-net.
>>>
>>> Patches 1 and 2 are simplifications that are too nice to leave
>>> them for later in the series.
>>>
>>> Patch 3 moves some of the ioeventfd code from virtio-bus.c to
>>> virtio.c.  At this point the transition is a bit half-assed, but
>>> this changes as soon as we remove the generic->dataplane
>>> handler transition.
>>>
>>> Patches 4 to 6 do exactly that, and then the spring cleaning
>>> begins, lasting for the whole second half of the series.
>>>
>>> Opinions, reviews and bug reports?
>>
>> is there a branch?
> 
> ioeventfd-virtio in my github repo.

Triggering
qemu-system-s390x: /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/hw/block/virtio-blk.c:771: 
virtio_blk_set_status: Assertion `!s->dataplane_started' failed.

Is this based on the old version that still had this bug?




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