Re: [PATCH 3/5] conf: Introduce <metadata_cache> subelement of <disk><driver>

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On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:59:36PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> In certain specific cases it might be beneficial to be able to control
> the metadata caching of storage image format drivers of a hypervisor.
> 
> Introduce XML machinery to set the maximum size of the metadata cache
> which will be used by qemu's qcow2 driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  docs/formatdomain.rst                         | 43 ++++++++++++++
>  docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng                 | 20 ++++++-
>  src/conf/domain_conf.c                        | 51 ++++++++++++++--
>  src/util/virstoragefile.c                     |  1 +
>  src/util/virstoragefile.h                     |  2 +
>  .../qemuxml2argvdata/disk-metadata-cache.xml  | 46 +++++++++++++++
>  .../disk-metadata-cache.x86_64-latest.xml     | 58 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c                       |  1 +
>  8 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/disk-metadata-cache.xml
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/disk-metadata-cache.x86_64-latest.xml


> +    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
> +      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
> +      <source file='/tmp/QEMUGuest2.img'/>
> +      <backingStore type='file'>
> +        <format type='qcow2'>
> +          <metadata_cache>
> +            <max_size unit='kiB'>1024</max_size>
> +          </metadata_cache>

I only wonder if this is uneccessarily verbose XML nesting ?

Not a blocker though.

Regards,
Daniel
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