From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] block: Use BB function in .bdrv_create() implementations
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:31:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160314113141.GA4812@noname.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457454872-12183-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com>
Am 08.03.2016 um 17:34 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben:
> All users of the block layers are supposed to go through a BlockBackend.
> The .bdrv_create() implementations are such users, so this series
> converts them.
>
> This series (specifically patch 1) will also help with moving the
> writethrough cache implementation from BDS to BB, where it really
> belongs. Once this is moved, it wouldn't be possible to use bdrv_open()
> to use a standalone BDS writethrough any more.
>
> Of course, writethrough doesn't make any sense in .bdrv_create() anyway,
> so while I'm still converting everything to BB where it would keep
> working (because that's the Right Thing), the drivers don't actually
> make use of this fact any more after this series.
Applied to the block branch.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-14 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 16:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] block: Use BB function in .bdrv_create() implementations Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] block: Use writeback " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-09 12:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-09 12:27 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] block: Introduce blk_set_allow_write_beyond_eof() Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/11] parallels: Use BB functions in .bdrv_create() Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/11] qcow: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] qcow2: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] qed: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] sheepdog: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] vdi: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] vhdx: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] vmdk: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-08 16:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/11] vpc: " Kevin Wolf
2016-03-14 11:31 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2016-03-14 16:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] block: Use BB function in .bdrv_create() implementations Max Reitz
2016-03-14 17:34 ` Kevin Wolf
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