From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZ2xt-0000le-UU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:52:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZ2xp-0007lx-G1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:52:17 -0400 Message-ID: <550C7A65.6050405@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:52:05 -0400 From: Max Reitz MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1426879023-18151-1-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1426879023-18151-1-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/20] block: transactionless incremental backup series List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: John Snow , qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com, vsementsov@parallels.com, stefanha@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