[libvirt] [PATCH v4 2/5] blockjob: turn on qemu capability bit for active commit
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Thu Jul 3 20:22:50 UTC 2014
On 06/24/2014 01:15 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On 06/24/14 01:30, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Use the probing functionality added in the last patch to turn on
>> a capability bit when active commit is present, and gate active
>> commit on that capability.
>>
>> For my own reference: the difference between BLOCKJOB_SYNC and
>> BLOCKJOB_ASYNC is whether qemu generated an event at the
>> conclusion of blockpull; basically, RHEL 6.2 was the only release
>> of qemu that has the sync semantics and lacks the event. RHEL
>> 6.3 added blockcopy, but also picked up on the upstream style
>> of qemu generating events. As no one is likely to backport
>> active commit to RHEL 6.2, it's safe for blockcommit to always
>> require async blockjob support.
>>
>> Modifying qemucapabilitiestest is painful; the .replies files would
>> be so much easier if they had comments correlating which command
>> generated the given reply. Maybe I'll fix that up later...
>>
>
> ACK,
Pushed.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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