On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 08:27:09PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> There are severe delays with IO requests processing if QEMU is running in
> virtual machine or over software defined storage. Such delays potentially
> results in unpredictable guest behavior. For example, guests over IDE or
> SATA drive could remount filesystem read-only if write is performed
> longer than 10 seconds.
> 
> Such reports are very complex to process. Some good starting point for this
> seems quite reasonable. This patch provides one. It adds logging of such
> potentially dangerous long IO operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <d...@openvz.org>
> CC: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com>
> CC: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
> CC: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>

This looks useful. It is indeed hard to diagnose soft lockups, I/O
timeouts, etc inside the guest :). QEMU should print more info. Thanks
for doing this!

Stefan

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