Am 10.09.2020 um 15:24 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 05:11:36PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Some QMP command handlers can block the main loop for a relatively long
> > time, for example because they perform some I/O. This is quite nasty.
> > Allowing such handlers to run in a coroutine where they can yield (and
> > therefore release the BQL) while waiting for an event such as I/O
> > completion solves the problem.
> > 
> > This series adds the infrastructure to allow this and switches
> > block_resize to run in a coroutine as a first example.
> > 
> > This is an alternative solution to Marc-André's "monitor: add
> > asynchronous command type" series.
> 
> Please clarify the following in the QAPI documentation:
>  * Is the QMP monitor suspended while the command is pending?

Suspended as in monitor_suspend()? No.

>  * Are QMP events reported while the command is pending?

Hm, I don't know to be honest. But I think so.

Does it matter, though? I don't think events have a defined order
compared to command results, and the client can't respond to the event
anyway until the current command has completed.

Kevin

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