Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 02/10] qmp: Add block-dirty-bitmap-add and block-dirty-bitmap-remove

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 12/01/2014 01:30 PM, John Snow wrote:
> From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> 
> The new command pair is added to manage user created dirty bitmap. The
> dirty bitmap's name is mandatory and must be unique for the same device,
> but different devices can have bitmaps with the same names.
> 
> The granularity is an optional field. If it is not specified, we will
> choose a default granularity based on the cluster size if available,
> clamped to between 4K and 64K to mirror how the 'mirror' code was
> already choosing granularity. If we do not have cluster size info
> available, we choose 64K. This code has been factored out into a helper
> shared with block/mirror.
> 
> The types added to block-core.json will be re-used in future patches
> in this series, see:
> 'qapi: Add transaction support to block-dirty-bitmap-{add, enable, disable}'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---

> +block-dirty-bitmap-add
> +----------------------
> +
> +Create a dirty bitmap with a name on the device, and start tracking the writes.
> +
> +Arguments:
> +
> +- "device": device name to create dirty bitmap (json-string)
> +- "name": name of the new dirty bitmap (json-string)
> +- "granularity": granularity to track writes with (int)

Worth mentioning that this is optional?

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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