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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/2] dirty-bitmap: Report BlockDirtyInfo.count i


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/2] dirty-bitmap: Report BlockDirtyInfo.count in bytes, as documented
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:37:54 -0500
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On 07/25/2017 04:28 PM, John Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/21/2017 02:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> We've been documenting the value in bytes since its introduction
>> in commit b9a9b3a4 (v1.3), where it was actually reported in bytes.
>>
>> Commit e4654d2 (v2.0) then removed things from block/qapi.c, in
>> preparation for a rewrite to a list of dirty sectors in the next
>> commit 21b5683 in block.c, but the new code mistakenly started
>> reporting in sectors.
>>
>> Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1441460
>>
>> CC: address@hidden
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>> Reviewed-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
>>
> 
> I must have forgotten about this -- Didn't this get reviewed as part of
> your byte series? Is this a resend for a stable branch?

Yes, it was reviewed during my part 2-of-4 series on byte-base block
status (the dirty bitmap series).  Series 1 made it into 2.10, but
series 2-4 did not; ergo, I filtered out the true bug-fixes that were
still worthy post-freeze.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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