Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] blockjob: expose manual-cull property

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 10/03/2017 01:43 PM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:59:28AM -0400, John Snow wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/03/2017 11:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 03/10/2017 05:15, John Snow wrote:
>>>> For drive-backup and blockdev-backup, expose the manual-cull
>>>> property, having it default to false. There are no universal
>>>> creation parameters, so it must be added to each job type that
>>>> it makes sense for individually.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> The verb "cull" is a bit weird.  The only alternative that comes to mind
>>> though are "reap" (like processes). There's also "join" (like threads),
>>> but would imply waiting if the jobs hasn't completed yet, and we
>>> probably don't want it.
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>
>> Sure, open to suggestions. I think Kevin suggested "delete" which I have
>> reservations about because of people potentially confusing it with
>> "cancel" or "complete" -- it does not have the capacity to
>> end/terminate/finish/complete/cancel a job.
>>
>> "reap" might be fine. I don't really have any strong preference.
>>
> 
> As far as verbs go, I like both 'reap' and 'delete'.  As far as the
> property, naming it 'manual_verb' is a bit odd, too. Maybe a clearer term
> for the property would just be 'persistent', with the QMP command being
> 'block_job_reap' or 'block_job_delete'?
> 
> -Jeff
> 

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