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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] Block layer thread-safety, part 2
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com

On Thu, 06/29 15:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This part takes care of drivers and devices, making sure that they can
> accept concurrent I/O from multiple AioContext.
> 
> The following drivers are thread-safe without using any QemuMutex/CoMutex:
> crypto, gluster, null, rbd, win32-aio.  NBD has already been fixed,
> because the patch fixed an unrelated testcase.
> 
> The following drivers already use mutexes for everything except possibly
> snapshots, which do not (yet?) need protection: bochs, cloop, dmg, qcow,
> parallels, vhdx, vmdk, curl, iscsi, nfs.
> 
> The following drivers already use mutexes for _almost_ everything: vpc
> (missing get_block_status), vdi (missing bitmap access), vvfat (missing
> commit), not protected), qcow2 (must call CoQueue APIs under CoMutex).
> They are fixed by patches 1-5.
> 
> The following drivers must be changed to use CoMutex to protect internal
> data: qed (patches 6-9), sheepdog (patch 10).
> 
> The following driver must be changed to support I/O from any AioContext:
> ssh.  It is fixed by patch 11.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> v1->v2: new patch 8 + adjustments to patch 9 to fix qemu-iotests testcase
>         183 (bdrv_invalidate_cache from block migration)

Thanks, queued:

https://github.com/famz/qemu/tree/staging

Fam