From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVfhu-0006iG-HZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:07:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVfht-0001te-EB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:07:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:06:52 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170713150652.GR4011@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <20170713092100.GD4011@redhat.com> <20170713140022.GN4011@redhat.com> <1f4ca3cc-b17b-b577-f5a7-5d550c387cb5@kamp.de> <20170713140711.GO4011@redhat.com> <4648fb64-c1ea-0962-0123-2326769a07c2@kamp.de> <20170713145801.GP4011@redhat.com> <37d97fcb-aa71-1ed4-2134-6d308da7b527@kamp.de> <20170713150148.GQ4011@redhat.com> <2c5db580-1e3e-9b82-2768-ba2510173387@kamp.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2c5db580-1e3e-9b82-2768-ba2510173387@kamp.de> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 5/8] block/qcow2: read and write the compress format extension List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Lieven Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lersek@redhat.com, den@openvz.org, mreitz@redhat.com, eblake@redhat.com On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:02:51PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote: > Am 13.07.2017 um 17:01 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange: > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:00:39PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote: > > > Am 13.07.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange: > > > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:18:13PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote: > > > > > Okay, so it has to be a mix of QAPI parsing and manual parameter checking, > > > > > right? > > > > Yeah. It does feel like a valid RFE for QAPI to add a permitted range to > > > > 'int' types though, which would simplify the code in future. > > > > > > > > > I currently have the following: > > > > > > > > > > options = qemu_opts_to_qdict(opts, NULL); > > > > > qdict_extract_subqdict(options, &compressopts, "compress."); > > > > > v = qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval(QOBJECT(compressopts)); > > > > > visit_start_struct(v, NULL, NULL, 0, &local_err); > > > > > if (local_err) { > > > > > ret= -EINVAL; > > > > > goto finish; > > > > > } > > > > > visit_type_Qcow2Compress_members(v, &compress, &local_err); > > > > > if (local_err) { > > > > > ret= -EINVAL; > > > > > goto finish; > > > > > } > > > > > visit_end_struct(v, NULL); > > > > > visit_free(v); > > > > > QDECREF(compressopts); > > > > > QDECREF(options) > > > > Looks good. > > > > > > > > > And I have the following 2 questions: > > > > > a) I have to specifiy compress.format and compress.level otherwise I will get an error. How can I fix that the settings are optional? > > > > Put an '*' as the first character of any field name if it should be optional. > > > > > > > > > b) If I just specify a compress.format can I default the compress.level to 0 without an error? > > > > I believe you'd get compress.level as 0 automatically for an 'int' type. > > > I still face the issue that I now always have to specify a compress.format. > > > I tried to solve it like this: > > [snip] > > > > that's not needed if you name the parameter '*level' in the QAPI schema > > its not needed for the *level, but I still get the error that the format > parameter is missing otherwise. And I can't make format optional. Surely specifying compress.format is how you turn on compression in the first place, so making that optional should not be necessary. eg the simple case becomes: qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compress.format=zlib foo.qcow2 1G Yes, there is no notion of a "default" format, but IMHO that's a good thing - same way with encryption - it requires an explict encrypt.format=luks to turn on encryption Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|