Re: [PATCH] dump: introduce dump-cancel QMP command

["Wangjing(Hogan)" via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>]

> Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 02:21:18PM +0800, Hogan Wang via wrote:
> >> There's no way to cancel the current executing dump process, lead to 
> >> the virtual machine manager daemon((e.g. libvirtd) cannot restore the 
> >> dump job after daemon restart.
> >> 
> >> Add the 'cancelling' and 'cancelled' dump states.
> >> 
> >> Use 'dump-cancel' qmp command Set the dump state as 'cancelling'.
> >> The dump process check the 'cancelling' state and break loops. 
> >> The 'cancelled' state mark the dump process cancelled success.
> >
> > On the one hand this patch is fairly simple which is obviously 
> > desirable.
> >
> > On the other hand though, this feels like it is further re-inventing 
> > the jobs concept.
> >
> > IMHO ideally the 'dump' command probably ought to get a 'job-id'
> > parameter, and integrate with the generic background jobs  framework.
> > This would unlock the ability to use existing commands like 
> > 'job-cancel', 'job-pause', 'job-resume', 'queyr-jobs' to interact with 
> > it.
> 
> Seconded.
> 
> Hogan Wang, would you be interested in rebasing the dump feature onto the jobs infrastructure?

Yes! I'm glad to do this, but it'll take some time.