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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 36/36] mirror: allow customizing the granula


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 36/36] mirror: allow customizing the granularity
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:24:57 -0600
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On 06/15/2012 09:05 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The desired granularity may be very different depending on the kind of 
> operation
> (e.g. continous replication vs. collapse-to-raw) and whether the VM is 
> expected
> to perform lots of I/O while mirroring is in progress.  Allow the user to 
> customize
> it.

> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -1383,6 +1383,8 @@
>  #        (all the disk, only the sectors allocated in the topmost image, or
>  #        only new I/O).
>  #
> +# @granularity: #optional granularity of the dirty bitmap, default is 64K.

What happens if the user doesn't pass in a power of 2?  Is there a
minimum or maximum acceptable value?

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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