Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [RFC] transactions: add transaction-wide property

[Markus Armbruster]

John Snow <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/16/2015 08:23 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:50:20PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
>>> Ping -- any consensus on how we should implement the "do-or-die"
>>> argument for transactions that start block jobs? :)
>>>
>>> This patch may look a little hokey in how it boxes arguments, but I can
>>> re-do it on top of Eric Blake's very official way of boxing arguments,
>>> when the QAPI dust settles.
>> 
>> I don't understand what you are trying to do after staring at the email
>> for 5 minutes.  Maybe the other reviewers hit the same problem and
>> haven't responded.
>> 
>> What is the problem you're trying to solve?
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>
> Sorry...
>
> What I am trying to do is to add the transactional blocker property to
> the *transaction* command and not as an argument to each individual action.
>
> There was some discussion on this so I wanted to just send an RFC to
> show what I had in mind.

Was it the discussion on @transactional-cancel?  I'm on record
supporting it per transaction rather than per action:
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg05948.html

> This series applies on top of Fam's latest series and moves the
> arguments from each action to a transaction-wide property.