[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: forbid second blockcommit during active commit

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 15:27:11 UTC 2015


On 01/13/2015 01:59 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 04:20:34PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135339 documents some
>> confusing behavior when a user tries to start an inactive block
>> commit in a second connection while there is already an on-going
>> active commit from a first connection.  Eventually, qemu will
>> support multiple simultaneous block jobs, but as of now, it does
>> not; furthermore, libvirt also needs an overhaul before we can
>> support simultaneous jobs.  So, the best way to avoid confusing
>> ourselves is to quit relying on qemu to tell us about the situation
>> (where we risk getting in weird states) and instead forbid a
>> duplicate block commit ourselves.
>>
>> Note that we are still relying on qemu to diagnose attempts to
>> interrupt an inactive commit (since we only track XML of an active
>> commit), but as inactive commit is less confusing for libvirt to
>> manage, there is less that can go wrong by leaving that detection
>> up to qemu.
>>
>> * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockCommit): Hoist check for
>> active commit to occur earlier outside of conditions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 14 +++++++-------
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK,

Pushed.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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