[pve-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use int64_t for return values from rbd instead of int

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:33:08AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Am 21.11.2012 09:26, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> >On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:47:16AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >>Am 21.11.2012 07:41, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> >QEMU is currently in hard freeze and only critical patches should go in.
> >Providing steps to reproduce the bug helps me decide that this patch
> >should still be merged for QEMU 1.3-rc1.
> >
> >Anyway, the patch is straightforward, I have applied it to my block tree
> >and it will be in QEMU 1.3-rc1:
> >https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> The steps to reproduce are:
> mkfs.xfs -f a whole device bigger than int in bytes. mkfs.xfs sends
> a discard. Important is that you use scsi-hd and set
> discard_granularity=512. Otherwise rbd disabled discard support.

Excellent, thanks!  I will add it to the commit description.

> Might you have a look at my other rbd fix too? It fixes a race
> between task cancellation and writes. The same race was fixed in
> iscsi this summer.

Yes.

Stefan