Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] block: add bitmap-populate job

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 19.06.2020 um 21:56 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> 
> This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because
> there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or
> won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into block-dirty-bitmap-merge.
> 
> It was designed with different possible population patterns in mind,
> but only top layer allocation was implemented for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

> +BlockJob *bitpop_job_create(
> +    const char *job_id,
> +    BlockDriverState *bs,
> +    BdrvDirtyBitmap *target_bitmap,
> +    BitmapPattern pattern,
> +    BlockdevOnError on_error,
> +    int creation_flags,
> +    BlockCompletionFunc *cb,
> +    void *opaque,
> +    JobTxn *txn,
> +    Error **errp)
> +{
> +    int64_t len;
> +    BitpopBlockJob *job = NULL;
> +    int64_t cluster_size;
> +    BdrvDirtyBitmap *new_bitmap = NULL;
> +
> +    assert(bs);
> +    assert(target_bitmap);
> +
> +    if (!bdrv_is_inserted(bs)) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "Device is not inserted: %s",
> +                   bdrv_get_device_name(bs));
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (bdrv_op_is_blocked(bs, BLOCK_OP_TYPE_BACKUP_SOURCE, errp)) {
> +        return NULL;
> +    }

So did we decide that we'll keep the legacy op blocker with the type of
another block job even though nobody could tell what it's good for?

Kevin