From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qapi/block-core: Add "new" qcow2 options
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:59:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1408557576-14574-5-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408557576-14574-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com>
qcow2 supports more than four options by now, add the new options
(overlap check mode and metadata cache size)
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
qapi/block-core.json | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index fb74c56..a89cb49 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -1250,6 +1250,67 @@
'data': { '*backing': 'BlockdevRef' } }
##
+# @Qcow2OverlapCheckMode
+#
+# General overlap check modes.
+#
+# @none: Do not perform any checks
+#
+# @constant: Perform only checks which can be done in constant time and
+# without reading anything from disk
+#
+# @cached: Perform only checks which can be done without reading anything
+# from disk
+#
+# @all: Perform all available overlap checks
+#
+# Since: 2.2
+##
+{ 'enum': 'Qcow2OverlapCheckMode',
+ 'data': [ 'none', 'constant', 'cached', 'all' ] }
+
+##
+# @Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags
+#
+# Structure of flags for each metadata structure. Setting a field to 'true'
+# makes qemu guard that structure against unintended overwriting. The default
+# value is chosen according to the template given.
+#
+# @template: Specifies a template mode which can be adjusted using the other
+# flags, defaults to 'cached'
+#
+# Since: 2.2
+##
+{ 'type': 'Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags',
+ 'data': { '*template': 'Qcow2OverlapCheckMode',
+ '*main-header': 'bool',
+ '*active-l1': 'bool',
+ '*active-l2': 'bool',
+ '*refcount-table': 'bool',
+ '*refcount-block': 'bool',
+ '*snapshot-table': 'bool',
+ '*inactive-l1': 'bool',
+ '*inactive-l2': 'bool' } }
+
+##
+# @Qcow2OverlapChecks
+#
+# Specifies which metadata structures should be guarded against unintended
+# overwriting.
+#
+# @flags: set of flags for separate specification of each metadata structure
+# type
+#
+# @mode: named mode which chooses a specific set of flags
+#
+# Since: 2.2
+##
+{ 'union': 'Qcow2OverlapChecks',
+ 'discriminator': {},
+ 'data': { 'flags': 'Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags',
+ 'mode': 'Qcow2OverlapCheckMode' } }
+
+##
# @BlockdevOptionsQcow2
#
# Driver specific block device options for qcow2.
@@ -1268,6 +1329,18 @@
# should be issued on other occasions where a cluster
# gets freed
#
+# @overlap-check: #optional which overlap checks to perform for writes
+# to the image, defaults to 'cached' (since 2.2)
+#
+# @cache-size: #optional the maximum total size of the L2 table and
+# refcount block caches in bytes (since 2.2)
+#
+# @l2-cache-size: #optional the maximum size of the L2 table cache in
+# bytes (since 2.2)
+#
+# @refcount-cache-size: #optional the maximum size of the refcount block cache
+# in bytes (since 2.2)
+#
# Since: 1.7
##
{ 'type': 'BlockdevOptionsQcow2',
@@ -1275,7 +1348,11 @@
'data': { '*lazy-refcounts': 'bool',
'*pass-discard-request': 'bool',
'*pass-discard-snapshot': 'bool',
- '*pass-discard-other': 'bool' } }
+ '*pass-discard-other': 'bool',
+ '*overlap-check': 'Qcow2OverlapChecks',
+ '*cache-size': 'int',
+ '*l2-cache-size': 'int',
+ '*refcount-cache-size': 'int' } }
##
--
2.0.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-20 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-20 17:59 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] qapi/block-core: Add "new" qcow2 options Max Reitz
2014-08-20 17:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] qcow2: Fix leak of QemuOpts in qcow2_open() Max Reitz
2014-08-20 19:10 ` Eric Blake
2014-08-21 17:54 ` Benoît Canet
2014-08-20 17:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] qapi: Allow enums in anonymous unions Max Reitz
2014-08-20 19:15 ` Eric Blake
2014-08-20 17:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] qcow2: Add overlap-check.template option Max Reitz
2014-08-20 19:22 ` Eric Blake
2014-08-20 19:27 ` Eric Blake
2014-08-20 19:30 ` Max Reitz
2014-08-20 17:59 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2014-08-20 19:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qapi/block-core: Add "new" qcow2 options Eric Blake
2014-08-20 19:38 ` Max Reitz
2014-08-20 19:45 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-17 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] " Stefan Hajnoczi
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