Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 7/9] block: don't make snapshots for filters

["Pavel Dovgalyuk" <dovgaluk@ispras.ru>]

> From: Kevin Wolf [mailto:kwolf@redhat.com]
> Am 26.09.2016 um 11:51 hat Pavel Dovgalyuk geschrieben:
> > > From: Kevin Wolf [mailto:kwolf@redhat.com]
> > > Am 26.09.2016 um 10:08 hat Pavel Dovgalyuk geschrieben:
> > > > This patch disables snapshotting for block driver filters.
> > > > It is needed, because snapshots should be created
> > > > in underlying disk images, not in filters itself.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
> > >
> > > But that's exactly what the existing code implements? If a driver
> > > doesn't provide .bdrv_snapshot_goto, the request is redirected to
> > > bs->file.
> > >
> > > >  block/snapshot.c |    3 +++
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/block/snapshot.c b/block/snapshot.c
> > > > index bf5c2ca..8998b8b 100644
> > > > --- a/block/snapshot.c
> > > > +++ b/block/snapshot.c
> > > > @@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ int bdrv_snapshot_goto(BlockDriverState *bs,
> > > >      if (!drv) {
> > > >          return -ENOMEDIUM;
> > > >      }
> > > > +    if (drv->is_filter) {
> > > > +        return 0;
> > > > +    }
> > >
> > > This, on the other hand, doesn't redirect the request, but silently
> > > ignores it. That is, loading the snapshot will apparently succeed, but
> > > it wouldn't actually load anything and the disk would stay in its
> > > current state.
> >
> > In my use case bdrv_all_goto_snapshot iterates all block drivers, including
> > filters and disk images. Therefore skipping goto for images is ok.
> 
> Hm, this can happy today indeed.
> 
> Originally, we only called bdrv_goto_snapshot() for all _top level_
> BDSes, and this is still what you normally get. However, if you
> explicitly create a BDS (e.g. with its own -drive option), it is
> considered a top level BDS without actually being top level for the
> guest, and therefore the snapshotting function is called for it.
> 
> Of course, this is highly inefficient because the goto_snapshot request
> is passed by the filter driver and then called another time for the
> lower node, effectively loading the snapshot a second time.
> 
> On the other hand if you use a single -drive option to create both the
> qcow2 BDS and the blkreplay filter, we do need to pass down the
> goto_snapshot request because it won't be called for the qcow2 layer
> otherwise.

How this can be specified in command line?
I believed that separate -drive option is required.

> 
> I'm not completely sure yet what the right behaviour would be here.

Pavel Dovgalyuk