From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xen-block: support feature-large-sector-size
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:48:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9c1360d-cebc-5c2a-a019-eca2f8f7f461@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190409164038.25484-1-paul.durrant@citrix.com>
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On 09.04.19 18:40, Paul Durrant wrote:
> A recent Xen commit [1] clarified the semantics of sector based quantities
> used in the blkif protocol such that it is now safe to create a xen-block
> device with a logical_block_size != 512, as long as the device only
> connects to a frontend advertizing 'feature-large-block-size'.
>
> This patch modifies xen-block accordingly. It also uses a stack variable
> for the BlockBackend in xen_block_realize() to avoid repeated dereferencing
> of the BlockConf pointer, and changes the parameters of
> xen_block_dataplane_create() so that the BlockBackend pointer and sector
> size are passed expicitly rather than implicitly via the BlockConf.
>
> These modifications have been tested against a recent Windows PV XENVBD
> driver [2] using a xen-disk device with a 4kB logical block size.
>
> [1] http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=67e1c050e36b2c9900cca83618e56189effbad98
> [2] https://winpvdrvbuild.xenproject.org:8080/job/XENVBD-master/126
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
> hw/block/dataplane/xen-block.c | 25 ++++++++++++----------
> hw/block/dataplane/xen-block.h | 3 ++-
> hw/block/xen-block.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
Thanks, added “by frontend” to the error message and applied to my block
branch:
https://git.xanclic.moe/XanClic/qemu/commits/branch/block
Max
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-26 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-09 16:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xen-block: support feature-large-sector-size Paul Durrant
2019-04-09 16:40 ` Paul Durrant
2019-04-10 15:52 ` Anthony PERARD
2019-04-10 15:52 ` Anthony PERARD
2019-04-10 15:55 ` Paul Durrant
2019-04-10 15:55 ` Paul Durrant
2019-06-26 16:48 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2019-06-26 17:19 ` Anthony PERARD
2019-06-26 17:48 ` Max Reitz
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