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Eric Blake 61cc872456 nbd: Advertise multi-conn for shared read-only connections
The NBD specification defines NBD_FLAG_CAN_MULTI_CONN, which can be
advertised when the server promises cache consistency between
simultaneous clients (basically, rules that determine what FUA and
flush from one client are able to guarantee for reads from another
client).  When we don't permit simultaneous clients (such as qemu-nbd
without -e), the bit makes no sense; and for writable images, we
probably have a lot more work before we can declare that actions from
one client are cache-consistent with actions from another.  But for
read-only images, where flush isn't changing any data, we might as
well advertise multi-conn support.  What's more, advertisement of the
bit makes it easier for clients to determine if 'qemu-nbd -e' was in
use, where a second connection will succeed rather than hang until the
first client goes away.

This patch affects qemu as server in advertising the bit.  We may want
to consider patches to qemu as client to attempt parallel connections
for higher throughput by spreading the load over those connections
when a server advertises multi-conn, but for now sticking to one
connection per nbd:// BDS is okay.

See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1708300
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190815185024.7010-1-eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: tweak blockdev-nbd.c to not request shared when writable,
fix iotest 233]
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2019-09-05 15:51:55 -05:00
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config docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
devel Various trivial fixes 2019-08-21 16:59:22 +01:00
interop nbd: Advertise multi-conn for shared read-only connections 2019-09-05 15:51:55 -05:00
specs docs/specs: initial spec summary for Ultravisor-related hcalls 2019-08-21 17:17:12 +10:00
sphinx sphinx: add qmp_lexer 2019-07-10 15:08:06 -04:00
spin docs: create config/, devel/ and spin/ subdirectories 2017-06-07 18:22:03 +02:00
COLO-FT.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
amd-memory-encryption.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
block-replication.txt docs: block replication's description 2016-09-13 11:00:56 +01:00
bootindex.txt docs qemu-doc: Avoid ide-drive, it's deprecated 2017-06-04 18:42:55 +03:00
can.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
ccid.txt libcacard: improve documentation 2014-06-10 07:44:01 +02:00
colo-proxy.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
conf.py sphinx: add qmp_lexer 2019-07-10 15:08:06 -04:00
cpu-hotplug.rst docs/cpu-hotplug.rst: Fix rST markup issues 2019-03-07 14:26:44 +00:00
generic-loader.txt docs/generic-loader: mention U-Boot and Intel HEX executable formats 2018-08-20 11:24:31 +01:00
hyperv.txt i386/kvm: add support for Direct Mode for Hyper-V synthetic timers 2019-06-21 02:29:39 +02:00
igd-assign.txt vfio/pci: Add IGD documentation 2016-05-26 11:12:05 -06:00
image-fuzzer.txt docs: List all image elements currently supported by the fuzzer 2014-09-22 11:39:35 +01:00
index.rst docs: provide documentation on the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller 2019-05-29 11:39:47 +10:00
memory-hotplug.txt docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
multi-thread-compression.txt Replace '-enable-kvm' with '-accel kvm' in docs and help texts 2018-06-28 19:05:32 +02:00
multiseat.txt tests/docker/test-mingw and docs: Remove --with-sdlabi=2.0 2019-02-04 15:25:21 +00:00
nvdimm.txt util/mmap-alloc: support MAP_SYNC in qemu_ram_mmap() 2019-04-25 14:17:36 -03:00
pci_expander_bridge.txt pxb: cleanup 2016-03-11 16:59:12 +02:00
pcie.txt docs: pcie: Spell out machine type needs for PCIe features 2018-03-01 16:25:37 +02:00
pcie_pci_bridge.txt pci: removed the is_express field since a uniform interface was inserted 2018-02-08 21:06:41 +02:00
pr-manager.rst scsi: add multipath support to qemu-pr-helper 2017-09-22 21:07:27 +02:00
pvrdma.txt hw/pvrdma: Remove max-sge command-line param 2019-01-19 10:31:24 +02:00
qcow2-cache.txt qcow2: Default to 4KB for the qcow2 cache entry size 2019-03-08 12:26:45 +01:00
qdev-device-use.txt qemu-options: Remove deprecated "-virtioconsole" option 2019-02-05 16:50:19 +01:00
qemu-block-drivers.texi doc: Preallocation does not require writing zeroes 2019-08-19 17:13:26 +02:00
qemu-cpu-models.texi docs: recommend use of md-clear feature on all Intel CPUs 2019-05-21 15:39:05 -03:00
qemu_logo.pdf docs: add qemu logo to pdf 2017-01-16 10:11:43 +01:00
qemupciserial.inf docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
rdma.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
replay.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
security.texi doc: document that the monitor console is a privileged control interface 2019-07-19 14:21:08 +01:00
spice-port-fqdn.txt docs: add spice-port-fqdn.txt 2012-12-17 14:01:41 +01:00
throttle.txt docs: Fix description of the leaky bucket algorithm in throttle.txt 2016-09-13 18:12:34 +03:00
usb-storage.txt usb: Fix typo in documentation 2017-01-24 23:26:52 +03:00
usb2.txt docs/usb2.txt: ehci has six ports 2018-08-21 10:22:03 +02:00
vfio-ap.txt doc: fix typos for documents in tree 2019-03-06 10:40:21 +01:00
virtio-balloon-stats.txt Remove the deprecated -balloon option 2018-08-31 09:52:13 +02:00
xbzrle.txt docs/xbzrle: correction 2016-10-13 17:23:53 +02:00
xen-save-devices-state.txt Fix up dangling references to qmp-commands.* in comment and doc 2018-03-02 13:48:26 -06:00