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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/16] backup compression
@ 2016-07-22  8:17 Denis V. Lunev
  2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 01/16] block: switch blk_write_compressed() to byte-based interface Denis V. Lunev
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  0 siblings, 19 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Denis V. Lunev @ 2016-07-22  8:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-block, qemu-devel
  Cc: den, Pavel Butsykin, Jeff Cody, Markus Armbruster, Eric Blake,
	John Snow, Stefan Hajnoczi, Kevin Wolf

The idea is simple - backup is "written-once" data. It is written block
by block and it is large enough. It would be nice to save storage
space and compress it.

These patches add the ability to compress data during backup. This
functionality is implemented by means of adding options to the qmp/hmp
commands(drive-backup, blockdev-backup). The implementation is quite
simple, because the responsibility for data compression imposed on the
format driver.

Changes from v1:
- added unittest for backup compression (12, 13)

Changes from v2:
- implemented a new .bdrv_co_write_compressed interface to replace the
  old .bdrv_write_compressed (2,3,4,5,6)

Changes from v3:
- added the byte-based interfaces:
  blk_pwrite_compressed()/blk_co_pwritev_compressed() (1, 7)
- fix drive/blockdev-backup documentation (10, 11)

Changes from v4:
- added assert that offset and count are aligned (1)
- reuse RwCo and bdrv_co_pwritev() for write compressed (2)
- converted interfaces to byte-based for format drivers (2, 3, 5, 6)
- move an unrelated cleanup in a separate patches (4, 7)
- turn on dirty_bitmaps for the compressed writes (9)
- added simplify drive/blockdev-backup by using the boxed commands (10, 11)
- reworded drive/blockdev-backup documentation about compression (12, 13)
- fix s/bakup/backup/ (14)

Changes from v5:
- rebased on master
- fix grammar (5, 8)

Changes from v6:
- more grammar fixes (1,11)
- assignment cleanup as suggested by Eric in 11

Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

Pavel Butsykin (16):
  block: switch blk_write_compressed() to byte-based interface
  block: Convert bdrv_pwrite_compressed() to BdrvChild
  block/io: reuse bdrv_co_pwritev() for write compressed
  qcow2: add qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed
  qcow2: cleanup qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed to avoid the recursion
  vmdk: add vmdk_co_pwritev_compressed
  qcow: add qcow_co_pwritev_compressed
  qcow: cleanup qcow_co_pwritev_compressed to avoid the recursion
  block: remove BlockDriver.bdrv_write_compressed
  block/io: turn on dirty_bitmaps for the compressed writes
  block: simplify drive-backup
  block: simplify blockdev-backup
  drive-backup: added support for data compression
  blockdev-backup: added support for data compression
  qemu-iotests: test backup compression in 055
  qemu-iotests: add vmdk for test backup compression in 055

 block/backup.c                 |  12 ++-
 block/block-backend.c          |  27 +-----
 block/io.c                     |  48 ++++------
 block/qcow.c                   | 113 +++++++++---------------
 block/qcow2.c                  | 128 ++++++++++-----------------
 block/vmdk.c                   |  55 ++----------
 blockdev.c                     | 193 ++++++++++++++---------------------------
 hmp-commands.hx                |   8 +-
 hmp.c                          |  24 ++---
 include/block/block.h          |   5 +-
 include/block/block_int.h      |   5 +-
 include/sysemu/block-backend.h |   4 +-
 qapi/block-core.json           |  18 +++-
 qemu-img.c                     |   8 +-
 qemu-io-cmds.c                 |   2 +-
 qmp-commands.hx                |   9 +-
 tests/qemu-iotests/055         | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/qemu-iotests/055.out     |   4 +-
 tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py  |  10 +--
 19 files changed, 366 insertions(+), 425 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.4

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2016-07-22  8:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/16] backup compression Denis V. Lunev
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2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 02/16] block: Convert bdrv_pwrite_compressed() to BdrvChild Denis V. Lunev
2016-08-04  9:35   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 03/16] block/io: reuse bdrv_co_pwritev() for write compressed Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 04/16] qcow2: add qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed Denis V. Lunev
2016-08-08 13:44   ` Kevin Wolf
2016-08-15  8:53     ` Pavel Butsykin
2016-08-15  9:39     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: fix iovec size at qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed Pavel Butsykin
2016-08-15 10:11       ` Kevin Wolf
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 05/16] qcow2: cleanup qcow2_co_pwritev_compressed to avoid the recursion Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 06/16] vmdk: add vmdk_co_pwritev_compressed Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 07/16] qcow: add qcow_co_pwritev_compressed Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 08/16] qcow: cleanup qcow_co_pwritev_compressed to avoid the recursion Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 09/16] block: remove BlockDriver.bdrv_write_compressed Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 10/16] block/io: turn on dirty_bitmaps for the compressed writes Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 11/16] block: simplify drive-backup Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 12/16] block: simplify blockdev-backup Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 13/16] drive-backup: added support for data compression Denis V. Lunev
2016-08-08 14:07   ` Kevin Wolf
2016-08-08 14:10     ` Kevin Wolf
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 14/16] blockdev-backup: " Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 15/16] qemu-iotests: test backup compression in 055 Denis V. Lunev
2016-07-22  8:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 16/16] qemu-iotests: add vmdk for " Denis V. Lunev
2016-08-04  9:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/16] backup compression Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-08-08 13:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-08-08 13:06   ` Denis V. Lunev
2016-08-08 13:16   ` Kevin Wolf
2016-08-08 14:21 ` Kevin Wolf

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