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Message-ID: <556C0EC4.5050206@citrix.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:50:28 +0200
From:	Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To:	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
CC:	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <justing@...ctralogic.com>,
	<konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, <paul.durrant@...rix.com>,
	<julien.grall@...rix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: xen-blkfront: blkif_recover: recheck feature-persistent

El 26/05/15 a les 2.11, Bob Liu ha escrit:
> When migrate from !feature-persistent host to feature-persistent host, domU
> still think new host/backend don't support persistent.
> Dmesg like:
> backed has not unmapped grant: 839
> backed has not unmapped grant: 773
> backed has not unmapped grant: 773
> backed has not unmapped grant: 773
> backed has not unmapped grant: 839
> 
> We should recheck whether the new backend support feature-persistent during
> blkif_recover().

Right, we recheck for indirect-descriptors but not persistent grants.

Do you think it makes sense to split the part of blkfront_connect that
checks for optional features, like persistent grants, indirect
descriptors and flush/barrier features to a separate function and call
it from both blkfront_connect and blkif_recover?

Roger.

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