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* [cross-project PATCH v2] NBD 64-bit extensions
@ 2022-11-14 22:41 Eric Blake
  2022-11-14 22:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] NBD spec changes for " Eric Blake
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From: Eric Blake @ 2022-11-14 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel, qemu-block, libguestfs, nbd

This is a cover letter for a set of multi-project patch series all
designed to implement 64-bit operations in NBD, and demonstrate
interoperability of the new extension between projects.

v1 of the project was attempted nearly a year ago:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-12/msg00453.html

Since then, I've addressed a lot of preliminary cleanups in libnbd to
make it easier to test things, and incorporated review comments issued
on v1, including:

- no orthogonality between simple/structured replies and 64-bit mode:
  once extended headers are negotiated, all transmission traffic (both
  from client to server and server to client) uses just one header
  size

- add support for the client to pass a payload on commands to the
  server, and demonstrate it by further implementing a way to pass a
  flag with NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS that says the client is passing a
  payload to request status of just a subset of the negotiated
  contexts, rather than all possible contexts that were earlier
  negotiated during NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT

- tweaks to the header layouts: tweak block status to provide 64-bit
  flags values (although "base:allocation" will remain usable with
  just 32-bit flags); reply with offset rather than padding and with
  fields rearranged for maximal sharing between client and server
  layouts

- word-smithing of the NBD proposed protocol; split things into
  several smaller patches, where we can choose how much to take

- more unit tests added in qemu and libnbd

- the series end with RFC patches on whether to support 64-bit hole
  responses to NBD_CMD_READ, even though our current limitations say
  servers don't have to accept more than a 32M read request and
  therefore will never have that big of a hole to read)

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org



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2022-11-14 22:41 [cross-project PATCH v2] NBD 64-bit extensions Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] NBD spec changes for " Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:46   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] spec: Recommend cap on NBD_REPLY_TYPE_BLOCK_STATUS length Eric Blake
2022-12-16 19:32     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2023-03-03 22:17       ` Eric Blake
2023-03-05  8:41         ` Wouter Verhelst
2023-03-06  8:48           ` [Libguestfs] " Laszlo Ersek
2023-03-06 13:48           ` Nir Soffer
2022-11-14 22:46   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] spec: Tweak description of maximum block size Eric Blake
2022-12-16 20:22     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2023-03-03 22:20       ` Eric Blake
2023-02-21 15:21     ` Wouter Verhelst
2023-03-03 22:26       ` Eric Blake
2023-03-05  8:45         ` Wouter Verhelst
2022-11-14 22:46   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] spec: Add NBD_OPT_EXTENDED_HEADERS Eric Blake
2022-12-19 18:26     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2023-02-22  9:49     ` Wouter Verhelst
2023-03-03 22:36       ` Eric Blake
2023-03-05  8:49         ` Wouter Verhelst
2022-11-14 22:46   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] spec: Allow 64-bit block status results Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:46   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] spec: Introduce NBD_FLAG_BLOCK_STATUS_PAYLOAD Eric Blake
2023-02-22 10:05     ` Wouter Verhelst
2023-03-03 22:40       ` Eric Blake
2023-03-05  8:50         ` Wouter Verhelst
2022-11-14 22:46   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] RFC: spec: Introduce NBD_REPLY_TYPE_OFFSET_HOLE_EXT Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] qemu patches for 64-bit NBD extensions Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 01/15] nbd/client: Add safety check on chunk payload length Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 02/15] nbd/server: Prepare for alternate-size headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 03/15] nbd: Prepare for 64-bit request effect lengths Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 04/15] nbd: Add types for extended headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 05/15] nbd/server: Refactor handling of request payload Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 06/15] nbd/server: Refactor to pass full request around Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 07/15] nbd/server: Initial support for extended headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 08/15] nbd/server: Support 64-bit block status Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 09/15] nbd/client: Initial support for extended headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 10/15] nbd/client: Accept 64-bit block status chunks Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 11/15] nbd/client: Request extended headers during negotiation Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 12/15] nbd/server: Prepare for per-request filtering of BLOCK_STATUS Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 13/15] nbd/server: Add FLAG_PAYLOAD support to CMD_BLOCK_STATUS Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 14/15] RFC: nbd/client: Accept 64-bit hole chunks Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:48   ` [PATCH v2 15/15] RFC: nbd/server: Send 64-bit hole chunk Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51 ` [libnbd PATCH v2 00/23] libnbd 64-bit NBD extensions Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 01/23] block_status: Refactor array storage Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 02/23] internal: Refactor layout of replies in sbuf Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 03/23] protocol: Add definitions for extended headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 04/23] states: Prepare to send 64-bit requests Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 05/23] states: Prepare to receive 64-bit replies Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 06/23] states: Break deadlock if server goofs on extended replies Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 07/23] generator: Add struct nbd_extent in prep for 64-bit extents Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 08/23] block_status: Track 64-bit extents internally Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 09/23] block_status: Accept 64-bit extents during block status Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 10/23] api: Add [aio_]nbd_block_status_64 Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 11/23] api: Add several functions for controlling extended headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 12/23] copy: Update nbdcopy to use 64-bit block status Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 13/23] dump: Update nbddump " Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 14/23] info: Expose extended-headers support through nbdinfo Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 15/23] info: Update nbdinfo --map to use 64-bit block status Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 16/23] examples: Update copy-libev " Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 17/23] ocaml: Add example for 64-bit extents Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 18/23] generator: Actually request extended headers Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 19/23] api: Add nbd_[aio_]opt_extended_headers() Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 20/23] interop: Add test of 64-bit block status Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 21/23] api: Add nbd_can_block_status_payload() Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 22/23] api: Add nbd_[aio_]block_status_filter() Eric Blake
2022-11-14 22:51   ` [libnbd PATCH v2 23/23] RFC: pread: Accept 64-bit holes Eric Blake

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