Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block/iscsi: add support for request timeouts

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
> libiscsi starting with 1.15 will properly support timeout of iscsi
> commands. The default will remain no timeout, but this can
> be changed via cmdline parameters, e.g.:
> 
> qemu -iscsi timeout=30 -drive file=iscsi://...
> 
> If a timeout occurs a reconnect is scheduled and the timed out command
> will be requeued for processing after a successful reconnect.
> 
> The required API call iscsi_set_timeout is present since libiscsi
> 1.10 which was released in October 2013. However, due to some bugs
> in the libiscsi code the use is not recommended before version 1.15.
> 
> Please note that this patch bumps the libiscsi requirement to 1.10
> to have all function and macros defined. The patch fixes also a
> off-by-one error in the NOP timeout calculation which was fixed
> while touching these code parts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/iscsi.c   | 87 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  configure       |  6 ++--
>  qemu-options.hx |  4 +++
>  3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

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

Stefan

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