Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 01/14] docs: block replication's description

[Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 02/12/2015 03:21 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Hi Congyang,
> 
> On Thu, 02/12 11:07, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> +== Workflow ==
>> +The following is the image of block replication workflow:
>> +
>> +        +----------------------+            +------------------------+
>> +        |Primary Write Requests|            |Secondary Write Requests|
>> +        +----------------------+            +------------------------+
>> +                  |                                       |
>> +                  |                                      (4)
>> +                  |                                       V
>> +                  |                              /-------------\
>> +                  |      Copy and Forward        |             |
>> +                  |---------(1)----------+       | Disk Buffer |
>> +                  |                      |       |             |
>> +                  |                     (3)      \-------------/
>> +                  |                 speculative      ^
>> +                  |                write through    (2)
>> +                  |                      |           |
>> +                  V                      V           |
>> +           +--------------+           +----------------+
>> +           | Primary Disk |           | Secondary Disk |
>> +           +--------------+           +----------------+
>> +
>> +    1) Primary write requests will be copied and forwarded to Secondary
>> +       QEMU.
>> +    2) Before Primary write requests are written to Secondary disk, the
>> +       original sector content will be read from Secondary disk and
>> +       buffered in the Disk buffer, but it will not overwrite the existing
>> +       sector content in the Disk buffer.
> 
> I'm a little confused by the tenses ("will be" versus "are") and terms. I am
> reading them as "s/will be/are/g"
> 
> Why do you need this buffer?

We only sync the disk till next checkpoint. Before next checkpoint, secondary
vm write to the buffer.

> 
> If both primary and secondary write to the same sector, what is saved in the
> buffer?

The primary content will be written to the secondary disk, and the secondary content
is saved in the buffer.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Fam
> 
>> +    3) Primary write requests will be written to Secondary disk.
>> +    4) Secondary write requests will be buffered in the Disk buffer and it
>> +       will overwrite the existing sector content in the buffer.
>> +
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