[PATCH 12/13] virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks: refactor extension to all disks

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Sep 23 15:35:02 UTC 2020


On 9/23/20 8:33 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Last step of the algorithm in virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks is to extend
> the array of disks to all VM's disk and provide defaults. This was done
> by extending the array, adding defaults at the end and then sorting it.
> This requires the 'idx' variable and also a separate sorting function.
> 
> If we store the pointer to existing snapshot disk definitions in a hash
> table and create a new array of snapshot disk definitions, we can fill
> the new array directly by either copying the definition from the old
> array or adding the default.
> 
> This avoids the sorting step and thus even the need to store the index
> of the domain disk altogether.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
> ---
>   src/conf/snapshot_conf.c | 48 +++++++++++++++-------------------------
>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 
Nice cleanup.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>

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