This series changes the block jobs so that they have a separate BlockBackend for every node on which they perform I/O. This doesn't only get us closer to the goal of only doing I/O through blk_*() from external sources (and block jobs are considered external), but can also later be used to use BlockBackend features for jobs: One could imagine replacing the very basic job throttling by the already existing and more advanced BlockBackend throttling, or using the BlockBackend error handling for block jobs.
This depends on the following queue of series on top of block-next: * [PATCH v2 00/13] block: Move I/O throttling to BlockBackend * [PATCH v2 0/9] block: Remove BlockDriverState.blk * [PATCH v3 for-2.7 0/8] blockdev: (Nearly) free clean-up work Alberto Garcia (1): block: keep a list of block jobs John Snow (1): backup: Pack Notifier within BackupBlockJob Kevin Wolf (12): block: Cancel jobs first in bdrv_close_all() block: Default to enabled write cache in blk_new() block: Convert block job core to BlockBackend stream: Use BlockBackend for I/O mirror: Allow target that already has a BlockBackend mirror: Use BlockBackend for I/O backup: Don't leak BackupBlockJob in error path backup: Remove bs parameter from backup_do_cow() block: Add blk_co_readv/writev() backup: Use BlockBackend for I/O commit: Use BlockBackend for I/O blockjob: Remove BlockJob.bs block.c | 23 +-------- block/backup.c | 67 ++++++++++++++------------ block/block-backend.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++- block/commit.c | 42 +++++++++++------ block/io.c | 18 ------- block/mirror.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------- block/stream.c | 14 +++--- blockdev.c | 12 +---- blockjob.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++------- include/block/block.h | 4 -- include/block/blockjob.h | 23 ++++++++- include/sysemu/block-backend.h | 8 ++++ qemu-img.c | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/041 | 27 ----------- tests/qemu-iotests/041.out | 4 +- trace-events | 8 +++- 16 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 216 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1