Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/20] block: transactionless incremental backup series

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 2015-03-20 at 15:16, John Snow wrote:
> I've run out of cheeky jokes for my cover letters.
>
> This patchset enables the in-memory part of the incremental backup
> feature, without transactional support.
>
> Support for transactions was separated into a separate series which
> is also now available on-list. Getting this portion of the series
> committed will help stabilize work on bitmap persistence and bitmap
> migration.
>
> Thanks to Fam Zheng for the original versions of this patchset,
> And thanks to Max for reviewing 2,395 versions of it since.
>
> ===
> v4:
> ===
>
> 04: Some in-line documentation for block_dirty_bitmap_lookup
>      Changed behavior with respect to aio_context
>        (always acquire, release if pbs == null, give to user otherwise)
> 10: Removed vestigial (currently nop) bdrv_enable_dirty_bitmap call
>      Kept R-B.
> 16: Added some comments to test_check_boundary_bits.
>      Kept R-B.
> 17: Folded in refactor from "incremental transactions v1" (Poor Kitty)
> 18: Pulled forward from "incremental transactions v1"
>      Kept R-B from that series.
> 19: Folded in refactor from "incremental transactions v1"
>      Added offset assertions into wait_incremental
> 20: Removed error tolerance from wait_until_completed, as
>      these patches no longer make use of that feature.

Thanks for squashing the iotest refactoring code into 17, 19, and 20!

Max