[libvirt] [PATCH v3 09/18] blockjob: add new --bytes flag to virsh blockjob

[Peter Krempa]

On 08/31/14 06:02, Eric Blake wrote:
> Expose the new flag just added to virDomainGetBlockJobInfo.
> With --raw, the presence or absence of --bytes determines which
> flag to use in the single API call.  Without --raw, the use of
> --bytes forces an error if the server doesn't support it,
> otherwise, the code tries to silently fall back to scaling the
> MiB/s value.
> 
> My goal is to eventually also support --bytes in bandwidth mode;
> but that's a bit further down the road (and needs a new API flag
> added in libvirt.h first).
> 
> This changes the human output, but the previous patch added
> raw output precisely so that we can have flexibility with the
> human output.  For this commit, I used qemu-monitor-command to
> force an unusual bandwidth, but the same will be possible once
> qemu implements virDomainBlockCopy:
> 
> Before:
> Block Copy: [100 %]    Bandwidth limit: 2 MiB/s
> After:
> Block Copy: [100 %]    Bandwidth limit: 1048577 bytes/s (1.000 MiB/s)
> 
> The cache avoids having to repeatedly attempt a flag probe when
> talking to an older server, when multiple blockjob commands are
> issued during a batch session and the user is manually polling
> for job completion.
> 
> * tools/virsh.h (_vshControl): Add a cache.
> * tools/virsh.c (cmdConnect, vshReconnect): Initialize the cache.
> * tools/virsh-domain.c (opts_block_job): Add --bytes.
> * tools/virsh.pod (blockjob): Document this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/virsh-domain.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  tools/virsh.c        |  2 ++
>  tools/virsh.h        |  2 ++
>  tools/virsh.pod      |  8 +++++--
>  4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

ACK

Peter



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