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Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] block/vpc: return ZERO block-status when appropriat
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Max Reitz |
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Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] block/vpc: return ZERO block-status when appropriate |
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Mon, 6 Jul 2020 10:28:05 +0200 |
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On 28.05.20 11:43, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> In case when get_image_offset() returns -1, we do zero out the
> corresponding chunk of qiov. So, this should be reported as ZERO.
>
> Note that this changes visible output of "qemu-img map --output=json"
> and "qemu-io -c map" commands. For qemu-img map, the change is obvious:
> we just mark as zero what is really zero. For qemu-io it's less
> obvious: what was unallocated now is allocated.
>
> There is an inconsistency in understanding of unallocated regions in
> Qemu: backing-supporting format-drivers return 0 block-status to report
> go-to-backing logic for this area. Some protocol-drivers (iscsi) return
> 0 to report fs-unallocated-non-zero status (i.e., don't occupy space on
> disk, read result is undefined).
>
> BDRV_BLOCK_ALLOCATED is defined as something more close to
> go-to-backing logic. Still it is calculated as ZERO | DATA, so 0 from
> iscsi is treated as unallocated. It doesn't influence backing-chain
> behavior, as iscsi can't have backing file. But it does influence
> "qemu-io -c map".
>
> We should solve this inconsistency at some future point. Now, let's
> just make backing-not-supporting format drivers (vdi in the previous
> patch and vpc now) to behave more like backing-supporting drivers
> and not report 0 block-status. More over, returning ZERO status is
> absolutely valid thing, and again, corresponds to how the other
> format-drivers (backing-supporting) work.
>
> After block-status update, it never reports 0, so setting
> unallocated_blocks_are_zero doesn't make sense (as the only user of it
> is bdrv_co_block_status and it checks unallocated_blocks_are_zero only
> for unallocated areas). Drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
> block/vpc.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
This breaks iotest 146, I’m afraid. Now everything is reported as
allocated, which is of course what we kind of want, but I suppose it
renders the test a bit useless.
It seems to me like the best thing to do would be to replace the
“qemu-io -o $opts -c map” calls by
“qemu-img map --output=json --image-opts $opts”, so that we get
“zero: true” instead of “not allocated” in the output.
A bit of a problem with that approach are the “allocated” entries,
because those are split into 2 MB chunks, so the output gets long. But,
well.
I’ve attached a diff to that effect. Would you be OK with squashing
that in?
Max
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