On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 18:52:37 +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 05:24:09PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > Some clients take the advice to poll virDomainGetBlockJobInfo rather > > than wait for the ready event. In some cases qemu can get to 100% and > > still not reach the synchronised phase. > > > > Since we are dealing with a computer interacting, > > OCD nit: The above sounds awkward to me, might want to rephrase it, > maybe something like: "Given that computers are interacting here ..." > > > the error that the job > > can't be finalized yet is not handled very well by those specific > > implementations. > > > > Our docs now correctly state to use the event. > > Nit: Calling out the event name, VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_READY can be > useful when reading Git logs at a later time. > > > We already munge the output for the start of the job, so we can do it > > even here. > > Optional, a bit of explanation of "munging the output" at the start (and > end) of the job would be useful for those new to these block APIs. > > Reading between the lines, and from what I recall Eric explaining once, > what you're implying here is: that even if QEMU reported "cur==end", but > if the _READY event is not emitted, libvirt manipulates it to report > "cur<end". > > Thanks for the workaround (because "QEMU is not accurately reporting > data") fix. > > /me wonders if he could make a reliable reproducer test for this... Technically you'll need to patch either libvirt or qemu to do so. E.g. add a delay to processing of the READY event from qemu. This is a race across two applications which is not easy to reproduce. Also I really don't want to think this is a solution. This is a dirty hack to work around software not willing to adapt to the correct approach. I did not want do do this, but I've found that we do something similar for the job startup. I really hate this solution, but given that it's two years since I've pointed out that relying on polling the info via virDomainBlockJobInfo is broken and apps should use the _READY event and it's still an issue today I'm going to do this, but really don't want to advertise this as a solution. It's not a solution. It's a hack.
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