Re: Question about eliminating virtio-scsi 30s timeout and hot-unplug

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On 12/21/2017 08:29 PM, Jason Behmer via Virtualization wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> I had a question about this patch that eliminates virtio-scsi timeout on
> IOs - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9802047/. ; How does this work
> when we have IOs outstanding to a device that is then hot-unplugged. 
> I'm under the impression that those IOs will never get returned with any
> status (please correct me if I'm wrong), and we will then end up waiting
> on them forever with this patch.
> 
It's no different from the virtio-block path; the I/O is pending in the
qemu process. When a device is hot-unplugged the I/O will be returned to
the qemu process, which then will return the final status to the guest.

Cheers,

Hannes
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