If the refcount of a refcount block is greater than one, we can at least
try to repair that problem by duplicating the affected block.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Convert block_job_sleep_ns and co_sleep_ns to use the new timer
API.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Add aio_timer_init and aio_timer_new wrapper functions.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Add a QEMUTimerListGroup each AioContext (meaning a QEMUTimerList
associated with each clock is added) and delete it when the
AioContext is freed.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
include/qemu/timer.h has no need to include main-loop.h and
doing so causes an issue for the next patch. Unfortunately
various files assume including timers.h will pull in main-loop.h.
Untangle this mess.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
In 4146b46c42e0989cb5842e04d88ab6ccb1713a48 (block: Produce zeros when
protocols reading beyond end of file), we break qemu-iotests ./check
-qcow2 022. This happens because qcow2 temporarily sets ->growable = 1
for vmstate accesses (which are stored beyond the end of regular image
data).
We introduce the bs->zero_beyond_eof to allow qcow2_load_vmstate() to
disable ->zero_beyond_eof temporarily in addition to enable ->growable.
[Since the broken patch "block: Produce zeros when protocols reading
beyond end of file" has not been merged yet, I have applied this fix
*first* and will then apply the next patch to keep the tree bisectable.
-- Stefan]
Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The .io_flush() handler no longer exists and has no users. Drop the
io_flush argument to aio_set_fd_handler() and related functions.
The AioFlushEventNotifierHandler and AioFlushHandler typedefs are no
longer used and are dropped too.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The throttling code was segfaulting since commit
02ffb50448 because some qemu_co_queue_next caller
does not run in a coroutine.
qemu_co_queue_do_restart assume that the caller is a coroutinne.
As suggested by Stefan fix this by entering the coroutine directly.
Also make sure like suggested that qemu_co_queue_next() and
qemu_co_queue_restart_all() can be called only in coroutines.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds sync-modes to the drive-backup interface and
implements the FULL, NONE and TOP modes of synchronization.
FULL performs as before copying the entire contents of the drive
while preserving the point-in-time using CoW.
NONE only copies new writes to the target drive.
TOP copies changes to the topmost drive image and preserves the
point-in-time using CoW.
For sync mode TOP are creating a new target image using the same backing
file as the original disk image. Then any new data that has been laid
on top of it since creation is copied in the main backup_run() loop.
There is an extra check in the 'TOP' case so that we don't bother to copy
all the data of the backing file as it already exists in the target.
This is where the bdrv_co_is_allocated() is used to determine if the
data exists in the topmost layer or below.
Also any new data being written is intercepted via the write_notifier
hook which ends up calling backup_do_cow() to copy old data out before
it gets overwritten.
For mode 'NONE' we create the new target image and only copy in the
original data from the disk image starting from the time the call was
made. This preserves the point in time data by only copying the parts
that are *going to change* to the target image. This way we can
reconstruct the final image by checking to see if the given block exists
in the new target image first, and if it does not, you can get it from
the original image. This is basically an optimization allowing you to
do point-in-time snapshots with low overhead vs the 'FULL' version.
Since there is no old data to copy out the loop in backup_run() for the
NONE case just calls qemu_coroutine_yield() which only wakes up after
an event (usually cancel in this case). The rest is handled by the
before_write notifier which again calls backup_do_cow() to write out
the old data so it can be preserved.
Signed-off-by: Ian Main <imain@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
BH will be used outside big lock, so introduce lock to protect
between the writers, ie, bh's adders and deleter. The lock only
affects the writers and bh's callback does not take this extra lock.
Note that for the same AioContext, aio_bh_poll() can not run in
parallel yet.
Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
bdrv_flush() can fail, and bdrv_flush_all() should return an error as
well if this happens for a block device. It returns the first error
return now, but still at least tries to flush the remaining devices even
in error cases.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
One of the major reasons for doing something new for -blockdev and
blockdev-add was that the old block layer code parses filenames instead
of just taking them literally. So we should really leave it untouched
when it's passing using the new interfaces (like -drive
file.filename=...).
This allows opening relative file names that contain a colon.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
.has_zero_init defaults to 1 for all formats and protocols.
this is a dangerous default since this means that all
new added drivers need to manually overwrite it to 0 if
they do not ensure that a device is zero initialized
after bdrv_create().
if a driver needs to explicitly set this value to
1 its easier to verify the correctness in the review process.
during review of the existing drivers it turned out
that ssh and gluster had a wrong default of 1.
both protocols support host_devices as backend
which are not by default zero initialized. this
wrong assumption will lead to possible corruption
if qemu-img convert is used to write to such a backend.
vpc and vmdk also defaulted to 1 altough they support
fixed respectively flat extends. this has to be addresses
in separate patches. both formats as well as the mentioned
ssh and gluster are turned to the default of 0 with this
patch for safety.
a similar problem with the wrong default existed for
iscsi most likely because the driver developer did
oversee the default value of 1.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
backup_start() creates a block job that copies a point-in-time snapshot
of a block device to a target block device.
We call backup_do_cow() for each write during backup. That function
reads the original data from the block device before it gets
overwritten. The data is then written to the target device.
Currently backup cluster size is hardcoded to 65536 bytes.
[I made a number of changes to Dietmar's original patch and folded them
in to make code review easy. Here is the full list:
* Drop BackupDumpFunc interface in favor of a target block device
* Detect zero clusters with buffer_is_zero() and use bdrv_co_write_zeroes()
* Use 0 delay instead of 1us, like other block jobs
* Unify creation/start functions into backup_start()
* Simplify cleanup, free bitmap in backup_run() instead of cb
* function
* Use HBitmap to avoid duplicating bitmap code
* Use bdrv_getlength() instead of accessing ->total_sectors
* directly
* Delete the backup.h header file, it is no longer necessary
* Move ./backup.c to block/backup.c
* Remove #ifdefed out code
* Coding style and whitespace cleanups
* Use bdrv_add_before_write_notifier() instead of blockjob-specific hooks
* Keep our own in-flight CowRequest list instead of using block.c
tracked requests. This means a little code duplication but is much
simpler than trying to share the tracked requests list and use the
backup block size.
* Add on_source_error and on_target_error error handling.
* Use trace events instead of DPRINTF()
-- stefanha]
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The bdrv_add_before_write_notifier() function installs a callback that
is invoked before a write request is processed. This will be used to
implement copy-on-write point-in-time snapshots where we need to copy
out old data before overwriting it.
Note that BdrvTrackedRequest is moved to block_int.h since it is passed
to .notify() functions.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The RDMA event channel can be made non-blocking just like a TCP
socket. Exporting this function allows us to yield so that the
QEMU monitor remains available.
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Tested-by: Michael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Now image info will be retrieved as an embbed json object inside
BlockDeviceInfo, backing chain info and all related internal snapshot
info can be got in the enhanced recursive structure of ImageInfo. New
recursive member *backing-image is added to reflect the backing chain
status.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds function bdrv_query_image_info(), which will
retrieve image info in qmp object format. The implementation is
based on the code moved from qemu-img.c, but uses block layer
function to get snapshot info.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds function bdrv_query_snapshot_info_list(), which will
retrieve snapshot info of an image in qmp object format. The implementation
is based on the code moved from qemu-img.c with modification to fit more
for qmp based block layer API.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
bdrv_snapshot_dump() and bdrv_image_info_dump() do not dump to a buffer now,
some internal buffers are still used for format control, which have no
chance to be truncated. As a result, these two functions have no more issue
of truncation, and they can be used by both qemu and qemu-img with correct
parameter specified.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch is a pure code move patch, except following modification:
1 get_human_readable_size() is changed to static function.
2 dump_human_image_info() is renamed to bdrv_image_info_dump().
3 in qmp_query_block() and qmp_query_blockstats, use bdrv_next(bs)
instead of direct traverse of global array 'bdrv_states'.
4 collect_snapshots() and collect_image_info() are renamed, unused parameter
*fmt in collect_image_info() is removed.
5 code style fix.
To avoid conflict and tip better, macro in header file is BLOCK_QAPI_H
instead of QAPI_H. Now block.h and snapshot.h are at the same level in
include path, block_int.h and qapi.h will both include them.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
All snapshot related code, except bdrv_snapshot_dump() and
bdrv_is_snapshot(), is moved to block/snapshot.c. bdrv_snapshot_dump()
will be moved to another file later. bdrv_is_snapshot() is not related
with internal snapshot. It also fixes small code style errors reported
by check script.
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The bs_snapshots global variable points to the BlockDriverState which
will be used to save vmstate. This is really a savevm.c concept but was
moved into block.c:bdrv_snapshots() when it became clear that hotplug
could result in a dangling pointer.
While auditing the block layer's global state I came upon bs_snapshots
and realized that a variable is not necessary here. Simply find the
first BlockDriverState capable of internal snapshots each time this is
needed.
The behavior of bdrv_snapshots() is preserved across hotplug because new
drives are always appended to the bdrv_states list. This means that
calling the new find_vmstate_bs() function is idempotent - it returns
the same BlockDriverState unless it was hot-unplugged.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We may want to include a driver in the whitelist for read only tasks
such as diagnosing or exporting guest data (with libguestfs as a good
example). This patch introduces a readonly whitelist option, and for
backward compatibility, the old configure option --block-drv-whitelist
is now an alias to rw whitelist.
Drivers in readonly list is only permitted to open file readonly, and
returns -ENOTSUP for RW opening.
E.g. To include vmdk readonly, and others read+write:
./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu \
--block-drv-rw-whitelist=qcow2,raw,file,qed \
--block-drv-ro-whitelist=vmdk
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qemu_co_queue_next(&queue) arranges that the next queued coroutine is
run at a later point in time. This deferred restart is useful because
the caller may not want to transfer control yet.
This behavior was implemented using QEMUBH in the past, which meant that
CoQueue (and hence CoMutex and CoRwlock) had a dependency on the
AioContext event loop. This hidden dependency causes trouble when we
move to a world with multiple event loops - now qemu_co_queue_next()
needs to know which event loop to schedule the QEMUBH in.
After pondering how to stash AioContext I realized the best solution is
to not use AioContext at all. This patch implements the deferred
restart behavior purely in terms of coroutines and no longer uses
QEMUBH.
Here is how it works:
Each Coroutine has a wakeup queue that starts out empty. When
qemu_co_queue_next() is called, the next coroutine is added to our
wakeup queue. The wakeup queue is processed when we yield or terminate.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The Linux nbd driver recently increased the maximum supported request
size up to 32 MB:
commit 078be02b80359a541928c899c2631f39628f56df
Author: Michal Belczyk <belczyk@bsd.krakow.pl>
Date: Tue Apr 30 15:28:28 2013 -0700
nbd: increase default and max request sizes
Raise the default max request size for nbd to 128KB (from 127KB) to get it
4KB aligned. This patch also allows the max request size to be increased
(via /sys/block/nbd<x>/queue/max_sectors_kb) to 32MB.
QEMU's 1 MB buffers are too small to handle these requests.
This patch allocates data buffers dynamically and allows up to 32 MB per
request.
Reported-by: Nick Thomas <nick@bytemark.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Options starting in "backing." are passed to the backing file now. If
you don't need to specify the filename for the backing file, you can add
it on the command line instead of in the image file:
$ qemu-nbd -t /tmp/test.img
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 empty.qcow2 1G
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=empty.qcow2,backing.file.driver=nbd,\
backing.file.host=localhost
Note that this doesn't override the backing filename from the image. If
the image has one, this will fail because NBD doesn't want the options
and a filename at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Directly pass the QEMUIOVector on instead of linearising it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Move aes.h from include/block to include/qemu to show it can be reused
by other subsystems.
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Many of these should be cleaned up with proper qdev-/QOM-ification.
Right now there are many catch-all headers in include/hw/ARCH depending
on cpu.h, and this makes it necessary to compile these files per-target.
However, fixing this does not belong in these patches.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It is not necessary to adjust the slice time at runtime. We already
extend the current slice in order to carry over accounting into the next
slice. Changing the actual slice time value introduces oscillations.
The guest may experience large changes in throughput or IOPS from one
moment to the next when slice times are adjusted.
Reported-by: Benoît Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
I/O throttling relies on bdrv_acct_done() which is called when a request
completes. This leaves a blind spot since we only charge for completed
requests, not submitted requests.
For example, if there is 1 operation remaining in this time slice the
guest could submit 3 operations and they will all be submitted
successfully since they don't actually get accounted for until they
complete.
Originally we probably thought this is okay since the requests will be
accounted when the time slice is extended. In practice it causes
fluctuations since the guest can exceed its I/O limit and it will be
punished for this later on.
Account for I/O upon submission so that I/O limits are enforced
properly.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
After this patch, using -drive with an empty file name continues to open
the file if driver-specific options are used. If no driver-specific
options are specified, the semantics stay as it was: It defines a drive
without an inserted medium.
In order to achieve this, bdrv_open() must be made safe to work with a
NULL filename parameter. The assumption that is made is that only block
drivers which implement bdrv_parse_filename() support using driver
specific options and could therefore work without a filename. These
drivers must make sure to cope with NULL in their implementation of
.bdrv_open() (this is only NBD for now). For all other drivers, the
block layer code will make sure to error out before calling into their
code - they can't possibly work without a filename.
Now an NBD connection can be opened like this:
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file.driver=nbd,file.port=1234,file.host=::1
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
If a driver needs structured data and not just a string, it can provide
a .bdrv_parse_filename callback now that parses the command line string
into separate options. Keeping this separate from .bdrv_open_filename
ensures that the preferred way of directly specifying the options always
works as well if parsing the string works.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The NBD block supports an URL syntax, for which a URL parser returns
separate hostname and port fields. It also supports the traditional qemu
syntax encoded in a filename. Until now, after parsing the URL to get
each piece of information, a new string is built to be fed to socket
functions.
Instead of building a string in the URL case that is immediately parsed
again, parse the string in both cases and use the QemuOpts interface to
qemu-sockets.c.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CoQueue uses a BH to awake coroutines that were made ready to run again
using qemu_co_queue_next() or qemu_co_queue_restart_all(). The BH
currently runs in the iothread AioContext and would break coroutines
that run in a different AioContext.
This is a slightly tricky problem because the lifetime of the BH exceeds
that of the CoQueue. This means coroutines can be awoken after CoQueue
itself has been freed. Also, there is no qemu_co_queue_destroy()
function which we could use to handle freeing resources.
Introducing qemu_co_queue_destroy() has a ripple effect of requiring us
to also add qemu_co_mutex_destroy() and qemu_co_rwlock_destroy(), as
well as updating all callers. Avoid doing that.
We also cannot switch from BH to GIdle function because aio_poll() does
not dispatch GIdle functions. (GIdle functions make memory management
slightly easier because they free themselves.)
Finally, I don't want to move unlock_queue and unlock_bh into
AioContext. That would break encapsulation - AioContext isn't supposed
to know about CoQueue.
This patch implements a different solution: each qemu_co_queue_next() or
qemu_co_queue_restart_all() call creates a new BH and list of coroutines
to wake up. Callers tend to invoke qemu_co_queue_next() and
qemu_co_queue_restart_all() occasionally after blocking I/O, so creating
a new BH for each call shouldn't be massively inefficient.
Note that this patch does not add an interface for specifying the
AioContext. That is left to future patches which will convert CoQueue,
CoMutex, and CoRwlock to expose AioContext.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Now that each AioContext has a ThreadPool and the main loop AioContext
can be fetched with bdrv_get_aio_context(), we can eliminate the concept
of a global thread pool from thread-pool.c.
The submit functions must take a ThreadPool* argument.
block/raw-posix.c and block/raw-win32.c use
aio_get_thread_pool(bdrv_get_aio_context(bs)) to fetch the main loop's
ThreadPool.
tests/test-thread-pool.c must be updated to reflect the new
thread_pool_submit() function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For now bdrv_get_aio_context() is just a stub that calls
qemu_aio_get_context() since the block layer is currently tied to the
main loop AioContext.
Add the stub now so that the block layer can begin accessing its
AioContext.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch adds a ThreadPool to AioContext. It's possible that some
AioContext instances will never use the ThreadPool, so defer creation
until aio_get_thread_pool().
The reason why AioContext should have the ThreadPool is because the
ThreadPool is bound to a AioContext instance where the work item's
callback function is invoked. It doesn't make sense to keep the
ThreadPool pointer anywhere other than AioContext. For example,
block/raw-posix.c can get its AioContext's ThreadPool and submit work.
Special note about headers: I used struct ThreadPool in aio.h because
there is a circular dependency if aio.h includes thread-pool.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
ThreadPool is tied to an AioContext through its event notifier, which
dictates in which AioContext the work item's callback function will be
invoked.
In order to support multiple AioContexts we need to support multiple
ThreadPool instances.
This patch adds the new/free functions. The free function deserves
special attention because it quiesces remaining worker threads. This
requires a new condition variable and a "stopping" flag to let workers
know they should terminate once idle.
We never needed to do this before since the global threadpool was not
explicitly destroyed until process termination.
Also stash the AioContext pointer in ThreadPool so that we can call
aio_set_event_notifier() in thread_pool_free(). We didn't need to hold
onto AioContext previously since there was no free function.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It doesn't do anything yet except storing the options QDict in the
BlockDriverState.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
It is better to present homogeneous hardware independent of the storage
technology that is chosen on the host, hence we make discard a host
parameter; the user can choose whether to pass it down to the image
format and protocol, or to ignore it.
Using DISCARD with filesystems can cause very severe fragmentation, so it
is left default-off for now. This can change later when we implement the
"anchor" operation for efficient management of preallocated files.
There is still one choice to make: whether DISCARD has an effect on the
dirty bitmap or not. I chose yes, though there is a disadvantage: if
the guest is buggy and issues discards for data that is in use, there
will be no way to migrate storage for that guest without downgrading
the machine type to an older one.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
There can be a need to turn output to stdout off. This patch adds a -q option
that enable "Quiet mode". In Quiet mode, only errors are printed out.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
