Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] NBD export bitmaps

[Eric Blake]

On 04/13/2018 01:13 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> This is a proposal and realization of new NBD meta context:
> qemu. (I hope to send corresponding proposal to NBD protocol soon)
>
> New possible queries will look like:
> qemu:dirty-bitmap:<export-bitmap-name>

>   qapi/block.json     |  23 +++++
>   include/block/nbd.h |   6 ++
>   blockdev-nbd.c      |  23 +++++
>   nbd/server.c        | 274 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>   4 files changed, 297 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

We need something in docs/interop/ that documents the qemu: namespace 
within NBD, so that the upstream NBD spec can point to our document as a 
reference for other clients to be aware of what semantics we are exporting.

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