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From: "Benoît Canet" <benoit@irqsave.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Benoît Canet" <benoit@irqsave.net>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 0/2] QCow2 deduplication write mechanism
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:29:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348756198-10845-1-git-send-email-benoit@irqsave.net> (raw)

This patchset introduce a partial implementation of a deduplication mechanism
for QCow2.
This patchset layout the disk format changes in the qcow2 spec and
provide a partial implementation of the write mechanisms.

Albeit being partial this is posted to get an early feedback and
see if things are on track.

Benoît Canet (2):
  qcow2: modify spec for deduplication
  qcow2: Deduplication write mechanism.

 block/Makefile.objs  |    2 +-
 block/qcow2-dedup.c  |  368 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block/qcow2.c        |   74 +++++++++-
 block/qcow2.h        |   40 +++++-
 docs/specs/qcow2.txt |    6 +-
 5 files changed, 486 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 block/qcow2-dedup.c

-- 
1.7.10.4

             reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27 14:29 Benoît Canet [this message]
2012-09-27 14:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 1/2] qcow2: modify spec for deduplication Benoît Canet
2012-09-27 15:02   ` Eric Blake
2012-09-27 14:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 2/2] qcow2: Deduplication write mechanism Benoît Canet
2012-09-27 15:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [partial RFC 0/2] QCow2 deduplication " Avi Kivity
2012-09-27 17:11   ` Benoît Canet

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