Re: [PATCHv2 12/33] storage: Determine the local storage type right away

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On 05/23/14 18:57, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/22/2014 07:47 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> When walking the backing chain we previously set the storage type to
>> _FILE and let the virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFDInternal update it to
>> the correct type later on.
>>
>> This patch moves the actual storage type determination to the place
>> where we parse the backing store name so that the code can later be
>> switched to use virStorageFileReadHeader() directly.
>> ---
>>  src/storage/storage_driver.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
> 
>> @@ -3173,6 +3174,16 @@ virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse(virStorageSourcePtr src,
>>              ret = 0;
>>              goto cleanup;
>>          }
>> +
>> +        /* update the type for local storage */
>> +        if (stat(backingStore->path, &st) == 0) {
> 
> Does this add additional stat() calls to the loop, which could be
> optimized by including a struct stat in virStorageSource and reusing
> that data when already obtained earlier?  At any rate, cleaning that up
> to minimize stat calls should be a separate patch, so this one is fine.

This indeed adds a second call to stat here, but the original call is
later removed. This call is added to satisfy the test and allow changing
some of the control flow.

> 
> ACK.
> 

Peter


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