Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] Optimize VMDK I/O by allocating multiple clusters

[Fam Zheng]

On Sat, 04/22 10:43, Ashijeet Acharya wrote:
> Changes in v4:
> - fix commit message in patch 1 (fam)
> - drop size_to_clusters() function (fam)
> - fix grammatical errors in function documentations (fam)
> - factor out metadata loading coding in a separate patch (patch 4) (fam)
> - rename vmdk_alloc_cluster_offset() to vmdk_alloc_clusters() (fam)
> - break patch 4(in v3) into separate patches (patch 3 and 8) (fam)
> - rename extent_size to extent_end (fam)
> - use QEMU_ALIGN_UP instead of vmdk_align_offset. (fam)
> - drop next and simply do m_data = m_data->next (fam)

I still don't like the m_data linked list but as this is a huge performance
improvement, I think we can merge this once the few bugs are addressed, then
clean up things on top.

Thanks,

Fam