On 13/04/2018 10:01, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Or bs->quiescent, for the sake of bikeshedding. > Yes, that sounds better. > > The only problem with the proposal as I made it is that it's wrong. We > can't keep bs->quiescent until bdrv_do_drained_end() because the caller > can issue new requests and then have a nested drained section that needs > to wait for all requests again instead of deciding that everything is > already quiescent. > > Maybe where we should really reset it is in the initial recursion of > bdrv_do_drained_begin(), specifically in bdrv_do_drained_begin_quiesce() > which is called by both the parent and the child recursion. > > There don't seem to be completely obviously correct solutions (can't an > I/O thread be draining a specific node while the main loop runs > drain_all?), but this would probably be the most obvious one.
Or use a hash table? Paolo
