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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10 0/2] Bug fixes from byte-based block st


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10 0/2] Bug fixes from byte-based block status
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 07:06:41 -0500
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On 07/24/2017 07:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/21/2017 01:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Series 2-4 of my byte-based conversion missed soft freeze, so they
>> are now 2.11 material.  However, there are some bug fixes in those
>> series that we should fix now in 2.10 (patch 1 from series two
>> on dirty bitmaps, patch 2 extracted from "qcow2: Switch qcow2_measure()
>> to byte-based iteration" from series three on block status).
>>
>> I don't know if it is worth enhancing iotest 178 to probe the size
>> of a 2T image.  The test is simple, and fast when patched:
>>
>> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=2M huge 2T
>> $ time ./qemu-img measure -O qcow2 -f qcow2 huge
>> required size: 335806464
>> fully allocated size: 2199359062016
>>
>> real 0m0.021s
>> user 0m0.017s
>> sys  0m0.004s
>>
>> but the inf-loop when unpatched is annoying; meanwhile, 'huge' only
>> occupies 6 megabytes on disk, so it's not that invasive.
>>
>> Eric Blake (2):
>>   dirty-bitmap: Report BlockDirtyInfo.count in bytes, as documented
>>   qcow2: Fix sector calculation in qcow2_measure()
> 
> Thanks; queued on my NBD branch:
> git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd

Sorry, replied to the wrong thread.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
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