From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: berto@igalia.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 17/21] block: Move cache options into options QDict
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 23:07:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56620E87.5070506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449236124-19605-18-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com>
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On 04.12.2015 14:35, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This adds the cache mode options to the QDict, so that they can be
> specified for child nodes (e.g. backing.cache.direct=off).
>
> The cache modes are not removed from the flags at this point; instead,
> options and flags are kept in sync. If the user specifies both flags and
> options, the options take precedence.
>
> Child node inherit cache modes as options now, they don't use flags any
> more.
>
> Note that this forbids specifying the cache mode for empty drives. It
> didn't make sense anyway to specify it there, because it didn't have any
> effect. blockdev_init() considers the cache options now bdrv_open()
> options and therefore doesn't create an empty drive any more but calls
> into bdrv_open(). This in turn will fail with no driver and filename
> specified.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
> block.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> blockdev.c | 52 ++++++++++----------------------
> 2 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-04 13:35 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/21] block: Cache mode for children etc Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/21] qcow2: Add .bdrv_join_options callback Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/21] block: Fix reopen with semantically overlapping options Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 03/21] mirror: Error out when a BDS would get two BBs Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/21] block: Allow references for backing files Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 05/21] block: Consider all block layer options in append_open_options Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 06/21] block: Exclude nested options only for children in append_open_options() Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 21:47 ` Max Reitz
2015-12-15 2:16 ` Wen Congyang
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/21] block: Pass driver-specific options to .bdrv_refresh_filename() Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 08/21] block: Keep "driver" in bs->options Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/21] block: Allow specifying child options in reopen Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 10/21] block: reopen: Document option precedence and refactor accordingly Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/21] block: Add infrastructure for option inheritance Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 12/21] block: Split out parse_json_protocol() Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 13/21] block: Introduce bs->explicit_options Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 14/21] blockdev: Set 'format' indicates non-empty drive Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 21:59 ` Max Reitz
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 15/21] qemu-iotests: Remove cache mode test without medium Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 16/21] block: reopen: Extract QemuOpts for generic block layer options Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 17/21] block: Move cache options into options QDict Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 22:07 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 18/21] blkdebug: Enable reopen Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 19/21] qemu-iotests: Try setting cache mode for children Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 20/21] qemu-iotests: Test cache mode option inheritance Kevin Wolf
2015-12-04 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 21/21] qemu-iotests: Test reopen with node-name/driver options Kevin Wolf
2015-12-07 9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/21] block: Cache mode for children etc Kevin Wolf
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