Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/12] mirror: perform COW if the cluster size is bigger than the granularity

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 18.01.2013 18:33, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> 
>> Am 18.01.2013 17:22, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>>> I haven't written a testcase for it, it's tricky but should be
>>> doable.
>>> Do you want me to respin, or can it be done as a followup?
>>
>> I think I would prefer a respin, but if you think otherwise, I won't
>> insist.
> 
> Okay, I'll respin.  I'll just note that this series now is in danger of
> missing 1.4 (after 1.2 and 1.3) because only Laszlo and Eric gave it a
> decent review in the six months since it was first posted.
> 
> Had I been employed by any other company, I'd probably just have kept
> the code in house and forgotten about upstream.

I hope this doesn't imply that you feel I'm happy or even just
indifferent about it. This is just what happens when you get a huge
numbers of patches and have only very few reviewers. I hope it has got a
bit better since Stefan supports me in maintaining the block layer, but
I'm afraid we're still not good enough with it. Any helpful suggestions
are appreciated.

Kevin