On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 05:00:29PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
[Arbitrarily chiming here, and still catching up with the details of the
thread.]
On 10/05/2016 03:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 10/05/2016 01:49 PM, John Snow wrote:
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Hmm, do we want to make it so some jobs are invisible and others are
not? Because as it stands right now, neither case is strictly true. We
only emit cancelled/completed events if it was started via QMP, however
we do emit events for error and ready regardless of who started the job.
Libvirt tries to mirror any block job event it receives to upper layers.
But if it cannot figure out which upper-layer disk the event is
associated with, it just drops the event. So I think that from the
libvirt perspective, you are okay if if you always report job events,
even for internal jobs. (Do we have a quick and easy way to set up an
internal job event, to double-check if I can produce some sort of
libvirt scenario to trigger the event and see that it gets safely ignored?)
Not in a QEMU release yet, I think.
If not from an official QEMU release, it'd still be useful to work out a
a way to reproduce what Eric asked even from upstream Git master.
For example, OpenStack Nova calls libvirt API virDomainBlockRebase(),
which internally calls QMP `drive-mirror` that emits events. An "event
origin classification" system, if were to exist, allows one to pay
attention to only those events that are emitted due to an explicit
action and ignore all the rest ('internal').
But I'm not quite sure if it's desirable to have this event
classification for cleanliness reasons as Eric points out below.
I'll push for keeping it mandatory and explicit. If it becomes a
problem, we can always add a 'silent' job property that silences ALL qmp
events, including all completion, error, and ready notices.
Completely silencing an internal job seems a little cleaner than having
events for the job but not being able to query it. But if nothing
breaks by exposing the internal jobs, that seems even easier than trying
to decide which jobs are internal and hidden vs. user-requested and public.
Well, at the moment anything requested directly via blockdev.c is "public."
Before 2.8, all jobs were public ones, with the exception of those in
qemu-img which is a bit of a different/special case.
We have this block/replication.c beast now, though, and it uses backup_start
and commit_active_start as it sees fit without direct user intervention.
As it stands, I believe the jobs that replication creates are user-visible
via query, will not issue cancellation or completion events, but WILL emit
error events. It may emit ready events for the mirror job it uses, but I
haven't traced that. (It could, at least.)
Thanks, the above is useful to know.