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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:39:24 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?B?Um9nZXIgUGF1IE1vbm7DqQ==?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: blkback making assumptions about the id of the requests
Message-ID:  <5225AE4C.1030108@citrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <D8D631B6-3DB4-4F7C-A0B0-590C7B5FA250@freebsd.org>
References:  <5224D1DE.8080906@citrix.com> <D8D631B6-3DB4-4F7C-A0B0-590C7B5FA250@freebsd.org>

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On 02/09/13 22:03, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> While playing with driver domains using FreeBSD I've found out that
>> blkback in FreeBSD makes assumptions about the id of a request instead
>> of actually using the id of the request on the shared ring. This seems
>> wrong to me, since a frontend might choose whatever ids it like for the
>> requests (like using 100-131 instead of 0-31). The patch attached fixes
>> it by copying the id from the request on the ring to blkback internal
>> request structure.
>>
>> Roger.
> 
> It looks to me like the id is set in xbb_dispatch_io().  Why it is done there
> and not earlier, I don't recall.

Sorry, I've missed to spot that the id is set there, the problem is that
requests of type BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE never reach that point, so
they end up having incorrect requests ids. I've reworded the commit
message and removed the late setting of the request id, now it is set
earlier so requests of type flush also have a valid id when writing the
response on the ring.



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