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Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] monitor: Optionally run handlers in coroutines


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] monitor: Optionally run handlers in coroutines
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:24:39 +0100

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 05:11:36PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Some QMP command handlers can block the main loop for a relatively long
> time, for example because they perform some I/O. This is quite nasty.
> Allowing such handlers to run in a coroutine where they can yield (and
> therefore release the BQL) while waiting for an event such as I/O
> completion solves the problem.
> 
> This series adds the infrastructure to allow this and switches
> block_resize to run in a coroutine as a first example.
> 
> This is an alternative solution to Marc-André's "monitor: add
> asynchronous command type" series.

Please clarify the following in the QAPI documentation:
 * Is the QMP monitor suspended while the command is pending?
 * Are QMP events reported while the command is pending?

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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