Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 4/9] block: treat BDRV_REQ_ALLOCATE as serialising

[Eric Blake]

On 01/16/2018 07:04 AM, Anton Nefedov wrote:
> The idea is that ALLOCATE requests may overlap with other requests.
> Reuse the existing block layer infrastructure for serialising requests.
> Use the following approach:
>   - mark ALLOCATE serialising, so subsequent requests to the area wait
>   - ALLOCATE request itself must never wait if another request is in flight
>     already. Return EAGAIN, let the caller reconsider.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/io.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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