Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] Jobs 2.0 QAPI [RFC]

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 12/22/2015 11:19 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Mon 21 Dec 2015 08:40:26 PM CET, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>> However, better flexibility also plays a part. Say we have two devices:
>>
>> [drive0]: [X] --> [Y] --> [Z]
>> [drive1]: [A] --> [B]
>>
>> In theory, we should be able to commit Z into Y into X while we
>> simultaneously perform a backup from X to A. We definitely can't do that
>> now.
>>
>> There may be some better use cases -- backups, fleecing and other
>> read-only operations in particular have a high likelihood of being able
>> to run concurrently with other operations.
>>
>>
>> We definitely *can* just extend the old API to allow for these kinds of
>> things, but since it represents a new paradigm of job manipulation, it's
>> easier to just extend the block jobs api into a new "jobs" API and allow
>> the system to expand to other subsystems.
> 
> That sounds good to me. Since I'm trying to achieve something similar
> with the block-stream operations (two or more ops in parallel) I'll try
> to follow this new API closely.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Berto
> 

Sure! Make sure you check out Jeff Cody's RFC on the new permissions
system which will form the basis for allowing multiple jobs, too.

--js