Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] qemu-iotests: Some more write_zeroes tests

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 18.05.2016 um 16:12 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 05/18/2016 06:27 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > This covers some more write_zeroes cases which are relevant for the
> > recent qcow2 optimisations that check the allocation status of the
> > backing file for partial cluster write_zeroes requests.
> > 
> > This needs to be separate from 034 because we can only support qcow2 in
> > this test case for multiple reasons: We check the allocation status
> > after write_zeroes with 'qemu-img map' and the optimised behaviour that
> > produces zero clusters is only implemented in qcow2; second, the map
> > command returns offsets that are qcow2 specific; and finally, we also
> > use 512 byte clusters which aren't supported for formats like qed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > 
> > v2:
> > - Some more test cases, including one suggested by Eric
> > - Comments in the test script that visualise each case with ASCII art
> 
> Nice!
> 
> > +# qcow2 specific bdrv_write_zeroes tests with backing files (complements 
> > 034)
> 
> Maybe also worth a one line tweak to 034 to give a comment pointing to
> this file (so the two mutually reference each other), but that doesn't
> require a respin.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Thanks, I pushed this to my block branch now.

Kevin

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