linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] virtiofs: Fix various races and cleanups round 1

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Message-ID: <20190906101339-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 10:17:44 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:     Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtio-fs@...hat.com,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] virtiofs: Fix various races and cleanups round 1

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This is not a drop in replacement for blk and scsi transports.  More
> for virtio-9p.  Does that have anything similar?

9p seems to supports unplug, yes. It's not great in that it
blocks until we close the channel, but it's there and
it does not crash or leak memory.