[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: fix domjobabort regression

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 23:38:34 UTC 2011


On 11/10/2011 04:43 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>> In the 'virsh save --bypass-cache' case, we pass a pipe instead of a
>>> regular fd, but using a pipe adds I/O overhead, so always passing a
>>> pipe just so qemu can see EAGAIN doesn't seem nice.
>>>
>>> The ultimate fix needs to come from qemu - background migration must
>>>     
>>
>>   ACK, it's a bit of a shame, but until we have a fix, it's more
>> important to be able to abort a save to disk than to be able to save
>> at a speed of more than 32MB/s (if the storage system support this)
>>   
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> BTW, I don't have access to the bug to see details, but I think I
> understand given Eric's description.

I've gone ahead and pushed my quick fix, but hopefully this isn't the
end of the story (see Dan's thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-November/msg00572.html).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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