Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] nbd: BLOCK_STATUS

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 02/15/2017 11:05 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

[now several months later...]

> 
> 
> On 03/02/2017 16:47, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> We really need exporting dirty bitmaps feature as well as remote
>> get_block_status for nbd devices. So, here is minimalistic and restricted
>> realization of 'structured reply' and 'block status' nbd protocol extension
>> (as second is developed over the first the combined spec may be found here:
>> https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/blob/extension-blockstatus/doc/proto.md)
>>

>>
>> It should be minimal but fully compatible realization of the spec.
> 
> This will require v2, but it seems pretty close already.

This series now needs a major rebase on top of the cleanups already
present for qemu 2.10.  Realistically, I'm aiming to get my series [1]
for NBD_OPT_GO into 2.10 (we have less than a week before soft freeze,
so any reviews offered on that series will be appreciated), then the
work on adding structured read and BLOCK_STATUS will probably be big
enough that it will have to be 2.11 material, but getting it posted
sooner rather than later will make it easier to fine-tune all the details.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg01971.html

And remember that in open source projects, review can often be the
bottleneck - it does not scale to have reviews done solely by the people
listed in MAINTAINERS.  My personal rule of thumb is that I try to
review 2 patches for every 1 that I submit, to make sure I'm not
contributing to a black hole of unreviewed patch backlog (although no
one will ever turn down a patch from a contributor unable to follow that
advice).  Other benefits of offering reviews: you quickly become more
familiar with the code base, and you earn some name-recognition in the
community (where it is more likely that your own patches get reviewed
quickly because someone recognizes that you are a regular contributor).
It's okay to state on a review that you are not familiar/comfortable
with the code, and want a second reviewer to double-check your work.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org


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