The group throttling code was always meant to handle its locking
internally. However, bdrv_swap() was touching the ThrottleGroup
structure directly and therefore needed an API for that.
Now that bdrv_swap() no longer exists there's no need for the
throttle_group_lock() API anymore.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Throttle groups are not necessarily referenced by BDSs alone; a later
patch will essentially allow BBs to reference them, too. Make the
ref/unref functions public so that reference can be properly accounted
for.
Their interface is slightly adjusted in that they return and take a
ThrottleState pointer, respectively, instead of a ThrottleGroup pointer.
Functionally, they are equivalent, but since ThrottleGroup is not meant
to be used outside of block/throttle-groups.c, ThrottleState is easier
to handle.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
bdrv_swap() touches the fields of a BlockDriverState that are
protected by the ThrottleGroup lock. Although those fields end up in
their original place, they are temporarily swapped in the process,
so there's a chance that an operation on a member of the same group
happening on a different thread can try to use them.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: d92dc40d7c4f1fc5cda5cbbf4ffb7a4670b79d17.1433779731.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The throttle group support use a cooperative round robin scheduling
algorithm.
The principles of the algorithm are simple:
- Each BDS of the group is used as a token in a circular way.
- The active BDS computes if a wait must be done and arms the right
timer.
- If a wait must be done the token timer will be armed so the token
will become the next active BDS.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: f0082a86f3ac01c46170f7eafe2101a92e8fde39.1433779731.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
