Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] nbd: freeze the queue before making changes
On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 10:54 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> The way we make changes to the NBD device is inherently racey, as we
> could be in the middle of a request and suddenly change the number of
> connections. In practice this isn't a big deal, but with timeouts we
> have to take the config_lock in order to protect ourselves since it
> is
> important those values don't change. Fix this by freezing the queue
> before we do any of our device operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@...2204...>
Actually nevermind, this messes with my plans around reconnections
since freezing also waits for existing timeouts to fire. I'll drop
this and fix it a different way. Thanks,
Josef
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