Re: [PATCH v2] qemu: Support copy on read for disk

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On 2012年01月13日 08:11, Eric Blake wrote:
On 01/12/2012 03:13 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
The new introduced optional attribute "copy_on_read</code>  controls
wether to copy read backing file into the image file. The value can

s/wether/whether/

be either "on" or "off". Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing
file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing file is over a
slow network. By default copy-on-read is off.
---
  docs/formatdomain.html.in                          |    9 ++++
  docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng                      |   11 ++++
  src/conf/domain_conf.c                             |   24 +++++++++-
  src/conf/domain_conf.h                             |   10 ++++
  src/libvirt_private.syms                           |    2 +
  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                       |    3 +
  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                       |    1 +
  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            |   11 ++++
  tests/qemuhelptest.c                               |    3 +-
  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-copy_on_read.args            |   11 ++++
  .../qemuxml2argv-disk-copy_on_read.xml             |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++
  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |    4 ++
  12 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-copy_on_read.args
  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-copy_on_read.xml

diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 42e23a1..3a42ebb 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -1202,6 +1202,15 @@
              <b>In general you should leave this option alone, unless you
              are very certain you know what you are doing.</b>
            </li>
+<li>
+            The optional<code>copy_on_read</code>  attribute controls
+            wether to copy read backing file into the image file. The
+            value can be either "on" or "off".
+            Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing file sectors
+            repeatedly and is useful when the backing file is over a slow
+            network. By default copy-on-read is off.
+<span class='since'>Since 0.9.9 (QEMU and KVM only)</span>

0.9.10

+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -958,6 +958,9 @@
        <optional>
          <ref name="event_idx"/>
        </optional>
+<optional>
+<ref name="copy_on_read"/>
+</optional>

Your placement as an attribute of<driver>  makes sense - the guest sees
no difference in behavior, so this really is an option for just how the
host behaves.

Looks pretty clean.  ACK with the minor doc nit fixed.


Thanks, Pushed.

Osier

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