On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:47:53AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The block layer does not know about pending requests. This information
> is necessary for copy-on-read since overlapping requests must be
> serialized to prevent races that corrupt the image.
>
> The BlockDriverState gets a new tracked_request list field which
> contains all pending requests. Each request is a BdrvTrackedRequest
> record with sector_num, nb_sectors, and is_write fields.
>
> Note that request tracking is always enabled but hopefully this extra
> work is so small that it doesn't justify adding an enable/disable flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> block.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> block_int.h | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
> index 0df7eb9..27c4e84 100644
> --- a/block.c
> +++ b/block.c
> @@ -1071,6 +1071,42 @@ void bdrv_commit_all(void)
> }
> }
>
> +struct BdrvTrackedRequest {
> + BlockDriverState *bs;
> + int64_t sector_num;
> + int nb_sectors;
> + bool is_write;
> + QLIST_ENTRY(BdrvTrackedRequest) list;
> +};
> +
> +/**
> + * Remove an active request from the tracked requests list
> + *
> + * This function should be called when a tracked request is completing.
> + */
> +static void tracked_request_end(BdrvTrackedRequest *req)
> +{
> + QLIST_REMOVE(req, list);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * Add an active request to the tracked requests list
> + */
> +static void tracked_request_begin(BdrvTrackedRequest *req,
> + BlockDriverState *bs,
> + int64_t sector_num,
> + int nb_sectors, bool is_write)
> +{
> + *req = (BdrvTrackedRequest){
> + .bs = bs,
> + .sector_num = sector_num,
> + .nb_sectors = nb_sectors,
> + .is_write = is_write,
> + };
> +
> + QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&bs->tracked_requests, req, list);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Return values:
> * 0 - success
> @@ -1350,6 +1386,8 @@ static int coroutine_fn
> bdrv_co_do_readv(BlockDriverState *bs,
> int64_t sector_num, int nb_sectors, QEMUIOVector *qiov)
> {
> BlockDriver *drv = bs->drv;
> + BdrvTrackedRequest req;
> + int ret;
>
> if (!drv) {
> return -ENOMEDIUM;
> @@ -1363,7 +1401,10 @@ static int coroutine_fn
> bdrv_co_do_readv(BlockDriverState *bs,
> bdrv_io_limits_intercept(bs, false, nb_sectors);
> }
>
> - return drv->bdrv_co_readv(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors, qiov);
> + tracked_request_begin(&req, bs, sector_num, nb_sectors, false);
> + ret = drv->bdrv_co_readv(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors, qiov);
> + tracked_request_end(&req);
> + return ret;
> }
>
> int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_readv(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
> @@ -1381,6 +1422,7 @@ static int coroutine_fn
> bdrv_co_do_writev(BlockDriverState *bs,
> int64_t sector_num, int nb_sectors, QEMUIOVector *qiov)
> {
> BlockDriver *drv = bs->drv;
> + BdrvTrackedRequest req;
> int ret;
>
> if (!bs->drv) {
> @@ -1398,6 +1440,8 @@ static int coroutine_fn
> bdrv_co_do_writev(BlockDriverState *bs,
> bdrv_io_limits_intercept(bs, true, nb_sectors);
> }
>
> + tracked_request_begin(&req, bs, sector_num, nb_sectors, true);
> +
> ret = drv->bdrv_co_writev(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors, qiov);
>
> if (bs->dirty_bitmap) {
> @@ -1408,6 +1452,8 @@ static int coroutine_fn
> bdrv_co_do_writev(BlockDriverState *bs,
> bs->wr_highest_sector = sector_num + nb_sectors - 1;
> }
>
> + tracked_request_end(&req);
> +
> return ret;
> }
There is no need to worry about synchronous read/write requests
bypassing this interface, correct?
