Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] i_generation / st_gen support for handle based fs driver

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:47:42 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:21:05 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Harsh Prateek Bora
> >> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > This patch provides support for st_gen for handle based fs type server.
> >> > Currently the support is provided for ext4, btrfs, reiserfs and xfs.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <address@hidden>
> >> > ---
> >> >  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-handle.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Does handle-based file I/O really need to duplicate all this code?  Is
> >> it possible to use either regular open or handle-based open from a
> >> single local fs codebase?
> >
> > The only details common between handle based and local based getversion
> > callback is the ioctl. Moving that into a helper may not really help in
> > this case ?.
> 
> Aneesh, do you have a public virtfs tree that I can look at?  In
> qemu.git we don't have virtio-9p-handle.c yet, so I can't give any
> specific feedback.

http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/v9fs.git for-upstream

I should send the patchset to qemu list soon. Was waiting for the
co-routine patches to go upstream. 

-aneesh