[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] Selective block device migration implementation

[Michal Privoznik]

On 12.05.2015 14:07, Pavel Boldin wrote:
> The patchset represented in the mail thread implements the selective block
> device migration for the QEMU driver. This closes the referenced bug [1].
> 
> First the supplementary API implemented allowing for multiple key-values pair
> in the virTypedParameter arrays. This is used to pass the list of block
> devices to migrate in the following patches. Unit tests for this are added as
> well. This is the subject of the first three patches.
> 
> Fourth patch is adding the necessary parameter `migrate_disks' and passes it
> through the QEMU driver call stack. The introduced `qemuMigrateBlockDevice'
> function is then checks that the disk is to be migrated because it is in the
> list. If there is no list specified then the legacy check is used: the device
> is not shared, not readonly and has a source.
> 
> Fifth and the last patch is adding the necessary code to the `virsh' utility
> making it able for user to specify a comma-separated list of the block device
> names that are to be migrated.
> 
> The implemented Python bindings patch is to be presented.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203032
> 
> Pavel Boldin (5):
>   util: multi-value virTypedParameter
>   util: virTypedParamsPick* multikey API
>   util: add virTypedParamsPackStrings
>   qemu: migration: selective block device migration
>   virsh: selective block device migration
> 
>  include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h |   9 ++
>  include/libvirt/libvirt-host.h   |  24 ++++
>  src/libvirt_public.syms          |   3 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c           |  63 ++++++---
>  src/qemu/qemu_migration.c        | 197 ++++++++++++++++----------
>  src/qemu/qemu_migration.h        |  23 ++--
>  src/util/virtypedparam.c         | 290 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  tests/Makefile.am                |   6 +
>  tests/virtypedparamtest.c        | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/virsh-domain.c             |  44 ++++++
>  10 files changed, 788 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/virtypedparamtest.c
> 

Hey, I'm glad to see things moving. Unfortunately, I'm afraid we need
v2. The overall feeling is good though.

Michal