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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen-blkback: support dynamic unbind/bind



On 05.12.19 15:01, Paul Durrant wrote:
By simply re-attaching to shared rings during connect_ring() rather than
assuming they are freshly allocated (i.e assuming the counters are zero)
it is possible for vbd instances to be unbound and re-bound from and to
(respectively) a running guest.

This has been tested by running:

while true; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.img bs=1M count=1024; done

in a PV guest whilst running:

while true;
   do echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >unbind;
   echo unbound;
   sleep 5;
   echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >bind;
   echo bound;
   sleep 3;
   done

in dom0 from /sys/bus/xen-backend/drivers/vbd to continuously unbind and
re-bind its system disk image.

Could you do the same test with mixed reads/writes and verification of
the read/written data, please? A write-only test is not _that_
convincing regarding correctness. It only proves the guest is not
crashing.

I'm fine with the general approach, though.


Juergen

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