Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/22] dataplane: use QEMU block layer

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 01/05/2014 16:54, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> This patch series switches virtio-blk data-plane from a custom Linux AIO
> request queue to the QEMU block layer.  The previous "raw files only"
> limitation is lifted.  All image formats and protocols can now be used with
> virtio-blk data-plane.

Yay!

> I have already made block I/O throttling work in another AioContext and will
> send the series out next week.
>
> In order to keep this series reviewable, I'm holding back those patches for
> now.  One could say, "throttling" them.

What's also missing is things like block jobs and live snapshots, right?

Also, blockstats is not thread-safe and probably a couple other things 
but that's minor and easy to fix.

Paolo