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@ 2012-07-30 21:34 Supriya Kannery
  2012-07-30 21:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 1/9]block: Framework for reopening image files safely Supriya Kannery
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From: Supriya Kannery @ 2012-07-30 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: Kevin Wolf, Shrinidhi Joshi, Stefan Hajnoczi, Jeff Cody,
	Luiz Capitulino, Christoph Hellwig

 For changing host pagecache setting of a running VM, it is
important to have a safe way of reopening its image file.

V1 introduced:
 * a generic way to reopen image files safely. 
        In this approach, before reopening an image, for each
    block driver, its state will be stashed. Incase preparation,
    (bdrv_reopen_prepare) for reopening returns success, the stashed 
    state will be cleared (bdrv_reopen_commit) and reopened state will 
    be used further. Incase preparation of reopening returns failure, 
    the state of the driver will be rolled back (bdrv_reopen_abort) 
    to the stashed state. This approach is implemented for raw-posix, 
    raw-win32, vmdk, qcow, qcow2 and qed block drivers.
  
 * qmp and hmp command 'block_set_hostcache' using which host 
   pagecache setting for a block device can be changed 
   when the VM is running.

 * BDRVReopenState, a generic structure which can be 
   extended by each of the block drivers to reopen 
   respective image files.

V2:
 * Changed ordering of patches such that code changes related to 
   generic framework for safely reopening images gets applied first.

 * For block drivers not having bdrv_reopen_xx functions 
   implemented, return "feature not supported" error.

Testing:
=======
[Thanks! to Yoganananth Subramanian for helping out with testing]

Steps:
1) boot up guest image of different formats qed, raw, qcow2, vmdk
2) run iozone in these guests
   command: iozone -a
3) view cache setting of image file through qemu monitor
   command: info block
            "hostcache =" 0/1 should be displayed
4) Toggle hostcache value using block_set_hostcache
   command: block_set_hostcache virtio0 on
5) Disable and enable hostcache at randon intervals while iozone is
   running inside guest.
   command: block_set_hostcache virtio0 on/off
6) Info block should reflect toggled hostcache value
   and iozone should complete without any issue

Results:
  Verified above steps for raw-posix, qcow2, qed and vmdk images.
  raw-posix, qed and vmdk images (split files) worked fine. With
  qcow2 image getting an error of double free after iozone running
  for a while.

To Do:
======
* Debug the issue with qcow2 image and resolve asap.
* Enhance code around dup3 in raw-posix to fall back to
  dup2/dup when dup3 is not supported by OS.
* Do some more extensive testing, especially with qcow2 and
  qed drivers.

 New block command added:
"block_set_hostcache"
    -- Sets hostcache parameter for block device  while guest is running.

Usage:
 block_set_hostcache  <device> <option>
   <device> = block device
   <option>  = on/off

 qemu/block.c           |   79 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block.h           |    5 +
 qemu/block/qcow.c      |  108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block/qcow2.c     |  175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block/qed.c       |  103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block/raw-posix.c |  121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block/raw-win32.c |   96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block/raw.c       |   20 +++++
 qemu/block/vmdk.c      |  103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu/block_int.h       |   12 +++
 qemu/blockdev.c        |   19 +++++
 qemu/hmp-commands.hx   |   15 ++++
 qemu/hmp.c             |   11 ++
 qemu/hmp.h             |    1
 qemu/qapi-schema.json  |   21 ++++-
 qemu/qemu-common.h     |    1
 qemu/qmp-commands.hx   |   24 ++++++
 17 files changed, 912 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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2012-07-30 21:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 1/9]block: Framework for reopening image files safely Supriya Kannery
2012-08-01 15:51   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-02 20:19   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-08-14  8:54     ` Supriya Kannery
2012-08-08 21:13   ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-14  9:21     ` Supriya Kannery
2012-08-09  4:26   ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-09  9:20     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-08-09 13:02       ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-14 10:24         ` Supriya Kannery
2012-07-30 21:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 2/9]block: raw-posix image file reopen Supriya Kannery
2012-07-31 17:17   ` Eric Blake
2012-08-01  6:18     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-08-03 22:32     ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-14 10:53     ` Supriya Kannery
2012-08-09  4:26   ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-10 13:45   ` Corey Bryant
2012-08-14 11:13     ` Supriya Kannery
2012-08-14 11:35       ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-30 21:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 3/9]block: raw-win32 " Supriya Kannery
2012-07-30 21:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 4/9]block: vmdk " Supriya Kannery
2012-07-31 17:43   ` Eric Blake
2012-07-30 21:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 5/9]block: qcow2 " Supriya Kannery
2012-08-09  4:26   ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-09  9:37     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-30 21:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 7/9]block: qed " Supriya Kannery
2012-07-30 21:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 9/9]block: Enhance "info block" to display host cache setting Supriya Kannery
2012-07-31 17:47   ` Eric Blake
2012-07-31 20:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 0/9]block: Image file reopen and dynamic host pagecache change Jeff Cody
2012-08-01 17:11   ` Supriya Kannery
2012-08-01 18:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 6/9]block: qcow image file reopen Supriya Kannery
2012-08-01 18:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 8/9]block: Cmd "block_set_hostcache" for dynamic cache change Supriya Kannery
2012-08-01 19:21   ` Eric Blake
2012-08-02 20:36   ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-08-31 19:32   ` Jeff Cody
2012-08-09  4:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [v2 Patch 0/9]block: Image file reopen and dynamic host pagecache change Jeff Cody

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