On 08/31/14 06:02, Eric Blake wrote: > Upstream qemu 1.4 added some drive-mirror tunables not present > when it was first introduced in 1.3. Management apps may want > to set these in some cases (for example, without tuning > granularity down to sector size, a copy may end up occupying > more bytes than the original because an entire cluster is > copied even when only a sector within the cluster is dirty, > although tuning it down results in more CPU time to do the > copy). I haven't personally needed to use the parameters, but > since they exist, and since the new API supports virTypedParams, > we might as well expose them. > > Since the tuning parameters aren't often used, and omitted from > the QMP command when unspecified, I think it is safe to rely on > qemu 1.3 to issue an error about them being unsupported, rather > than trying to create a new capability bit in libvirt. > > Meanwhile, all versions of qemu from 1.4 to 2.1 have a bug where > a bad granularity (such as non-power-of-2) gives a poor message: > error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'drive-mirror': Invalid parameter 'drive-virtio-disk0' > > because of abuse of QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER (which is supposed to > name the parameter that was given a bad value, rather than the > value passed to some other parameter). I don't see that a > capability check will help, so we'll just live with it (and it > has since been improved in upstream qemu). > > * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h (qemuMonitorDriveMirror): Add > parameters. > * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorDriveMirror): Likewise. > * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h (qemuMonitorJSONDriveMirror): > Likewise. > * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c (qemuMonitorJSONDriveMirror): > Likewise. > * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockCopyCommon): Likewise. > (qemuDomainBlockRebase, qemuDomainBlockCopy): Adjust callers. > * src/qemu/qemu_migration.c (qemuMigrationDriveMirror): Likewise. > * tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c (qemuMonitorJSONDriveMirror): Likewise. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 18 +++++------------- > src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 2 +- > src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 8 +++++--- > src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 2 ++ > src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 6 +++++- > src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 2 ++ > tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c | 2 +- > 7 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > ACK, Peter
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