Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC - QCOW2 <-> QED image converter

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 07:10:00AM +0800, Lyu Mitnick wrote:
> Would you mind to share your solution about this feature?? My idea is
> replace
> all bdrv_pread(), bdrv_pwrite_sync(), bdrv_pwrite() in block/vpc.c to
> bdrv_pread_split(),  bdrv_pwrite_sync_split(), bdrv_pwrite_split()
> corresponding.
> bdrv_pread_split(),  bdrv_pwrite_sync_split(), bdrv_pwrite_split() should
> deal with
> data splitted at different files via bdrv_pread(), bdrv_pwrite_sync(),
> bdrv_pwrite(),
> give an interface of sequential byte accessed. Is it suitable to solve this
> issue??

For the synchronous bdrv_read/bdrv_write used in vmdk the problem actually
is rather trivial, as it already split it's reads/write on a cluster
boundary internally, and the higher level split is always alignment to
a cluster boundary.  So basically no new work there.