Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] block: Fix op blockers for inactive images

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 04.05.2017 um 18:52 hat Kevin Wolf geschrieben:
> Fam's image locking series introduced some special-casing in the file-posix
> driver that avoids taking locks when the image is inactive. While this works,
> it really isn't the job of the file-posix driver, but the core block layer
> should consider that inactive nodes require a lot less permissions.
> 
> This series integrates op blockers with bdrv_inactivate/invalidate_cache() to
> solve this problem gennerically, and removes the workaround in file-posix.

Applied to the block branch.

Kevin