On 2017-10-10 11:14, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 13.09.2017 um 20:18 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
>> In order to talk to the source BDS (and maybe in the future to the
>> target BDS as well) directly, we need to convert our existing AIO
>> requests into coroutine I/O requests.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> 
> Please follow through with it and add a few patches that turn it into
> natural coroutine code rather than just any coroutine code. I know I did
> the same kind of half-assed conversion in qed, but mirror is code that
> is actually used and that people look at for more than just a bad
> example.
> 
> You'll probably notice more things when you do this, but the obvious
> things would be changing mirror_co_read() into a mirror_co_copy() with
> the former callbacks inlined; keeping op on the stack instead of
> mallocing it in mirror_perform() and free it deep inside the nested
> functions that used to be callbacks; and probably also cleaning up the
> random calls to aio_context_acquire/release() that will now appear in
> the middle of the function.
> 
> Anyway, that's for follow-up patches (though ideally in the same
> series), so for this one you can have:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

Phew. :-)

I think I'll write the patches (while working on v2), but I'll send them
as a follow-up.

Max