From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrZGh-0006hj-6o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:28:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrZGZ-0006NL-NY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:27:59 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrZGZ-0006N9-FM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:27:51 -0500 Message-ID: <546E5CD1.1020406@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:27:45 -0700 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1415970374-16811-1-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> <1415970374-16811-22-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com> <5467682E.1030604@redhat.com> <5469E4C0.8040509@redhat.com> <546BAB8E.3090200@redhat.com> <546DF113.70403@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <546DF113.70403@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uKXct5Ivpi7IHeiB1CAKTN3I0OcEGWjoS" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 21/21] iotests: Add test for different refcount widths List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Max Reitz , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Kevin Wolf , Peter Lieven , Stefan Hajnoczi This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --uKXct5Ivpi7IHeiB1CAKTN3I0OcEGWjoS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/20/2014 06:48 AM, Max Reitz wrote: > Sounds good, the only problem is that I'd have to hand-craft the image > myself, because qemu generally uses self-references for refblocks (when= > allocating new refblocks, they will contain their own refcount). >=20 > I think this already would be too much effort (I'll reply to your secon= d > email right away ;-)). There is no fundamental difference in how new > allocations for the new reftable and for the new refblocks are treated:= > If there's a new allocation, respin. If that works for the new reftable= , > that's enough to convince me it will work for new refblocks as well. Agreed - one test of needing a third pass is sufficient to prove we handle allocations until convergence. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --uKXct5Ivpi7IHeiB1CAKTN3I0OcEGWjoS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUblzRAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqJKQH/00cWz4zyagUEHFvHVTFB4pq u/F3WwaR993vaPxFTP0o5MIcb8Tulm542+G0U4Xc9AGyW7VZCesncuJD2ok0ZUSh vv2YNF6cih/YwJSJagDpGE3aA/C2KKvnCPatZ+2sFfLZxjmysE321U/PENT9mdaS AI4R2WN7agNSF/Gti6tQBgpRKZitcJU/xtGNDpF04Y0Uav4NfpF2spKauz6snNRh +BlSWYP98wIut7LllvHlGX+SzEb4Rw16LiMgu48y43Zz9rNkpUBKLylJDjrAm8XH GWaY9chFHC5Sdlh6+Hxwxg1xA6grk8gsHNP16NQI6pQfH7Ky3Dz8Budbb2D8o90= =BxRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uKXct5Ivpi7IHeiB1CAKTN3I0OcEGWjoS--