Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: extend BLOCK_IO_ERROR event with nospace indicator

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 08.09.2014 um 16:42 hat Luiz Capitulino geschrieben:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:07:27 -0400
> Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Management software, such as RHEV's vdsm, want to be able to allocate
> > disk space on demand. The basic use case is to start a VM with a small
> > disk and then the disk is enlarged when QEMU hits a ENOSPC condition.
> > 
> > To this end, the management software has to be notified when QEMU
> > encounters ENOSPC. The solution implemented by this commit is simple:
> > it extends the BLOCK_IO_ERROR with a 'nospace' key, which is true
> > when QEMU is stopped due to ENOSPC.
> > 
> > Note that support for querying this event is already present in
> > query-block by means of the 'io-status' key. Also, the new 'nospace'
> > BLOCK_IO_ERROR field shares the same semantics with 'io-status',
> > which basically means that werror= has to be set to either
> > 'stop' or 'enospc' to enable 'nospace'.
> > 
> > Finally, this commit also updates the 'io-status' key doc in the
> > schema with a list of supported device models.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> 
> Kevin, are you going to take this via block layer tree?

Yes, thanks, I've applied it now.

What was our conclusion wrt the human-readable strerror() string for
debugging? Didn't we want to add that as well?

> > ---
> > 
> > Three important observations:
> > 
> >  1. We've talked with oVirt and OpenStack folks. oVirt folks say that
> >     this implementation is enough for their use-case. OpenStack don't
> >     need this feature
> > 
> >  2. While testing this with a raw image on a (smaller) ext2 file mounted
> >     via the loopback device, I get half "Invalid argument" I/O errors and
> >     half  "No space" errors". This means that half of the BLOCK_IO_ERROR
> >     events that are emitted for this test-case will have nospace=false
> >     and the other half nospace=true. I don't know why I'm getting those
> >     "Invalid argument" errors, can anyone of the block layer comment
> >     on this? I don't get that with a qcow2 image (I get nospace=true for
> >     all events)

Sounds familiar, but I never got around to debugging. Would probably be
worth some digging where the EINVAL comes from.

> >  3. I think this should go via block tree
> > 
> >  block.c              | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
> >  qapi/block-core.json |  8 +++++++-
> >  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Kevin