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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/4] block: add bdrv_get_format_alloc_stat forma


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/4] block: add bdrv_get_format_alloc_stat format interface
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 10:43:58 -0500
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On 05/30/2017 10:27 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 30.05.2017 17:53, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 05/30/2017 05:48 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>>> The function should collect statistics, about allocted/unallocated by
>>> top-level format driver space (in its .file) and allocation status
>>> (allocated/hole/after eof) of corresponding areas in this .file.
>>>

>>> +# @alloc_hole: allocated by format driver but actually is a hole in
>>> +#              underlying file
>> The portions of the format file in use by the format, but where the
>> entire cluster is a hole in the underlying file (note that with cluster
>> size large enough, you can get a cluster that is part-data/part-hole in
>> the underlying file, it looks like you are counting those as data).
> 
> No, I account on sector boundary on bs->file. So it is not cluster-aligned.

Okay, worth knowing (and therefore worth including in the documentation).

> 
>>
>>> +#
>>> +# @alloc_overhead: allocated by format driver after end of
>>> underlying file
>> The portions of the format file in use by the format, but where the
>> entire cluster is beyond the end of the underlying file (the effective
>> hole).  Do we really need to distinguish between hole within the
>> underlying file and hole beyond the end of the file? Or can this number
>> be combined with the previous?
> 
> alloc_alloc + alloc_hole + hole_alloc + hole_hole = size of bs->file, I
> think this is good and clear.

That relationship is worth including in the documentation.

> 
> these 4 stats describes bs->file usage in details (not on cluster
> boundary, but on sector, based on bs->file block status), alloc_overhead
> is separate.

I'd lean more towards alloc-overrun than alloc-overhead (we have
metadata overhead no matter what, but overrun does a nice job of
explaining offsets that are important to the format but which are not
present in the underlying protocol).


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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
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