From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
"qemu-block@nongnu.org" <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Cc: "kwolf@redhat.com" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"jsnow@redhat.com" <jsnow@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Denis Lunev <den@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] hbitmap: drop meta bitmaps as they are unused
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:05:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cf94b1f-e7cb-081a-34ab-63a7d9ba80ce@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6d654fb-7c04-c709-6b2a-3801ae1008d6@virtuozzo.com>
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On 20.01.20 17:20, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 20.01.2020 14:13, Max Reitz wrote:
>> On 19.12.19 11:03, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
>>> ---
>>> include/qemu/hbitmap.h | 21 --------
>>> tests/test-hbitmap.c | 115 -----------------------------------------
>>> util/hbitmap.c | 16 ------
>>> 3 files changed, 152 deletions(-)
>>
>> Er, hrm, well.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>>
>> git log me the only commits that touched anything to the regard of
>> '*create_meta*' were the ones that introduced it and your commit that
>> dropped it.
>>
>> Soo, er, well, okay. Why did we introduce these again? (I suppose I
>> should know since they have my S-o-b on them. But I actually don’t.)
>>
>> Max
>>
>
> I'm a bit not follow what you mean. I can just note, that dirty-bitmap.c
> part of meta bitmaps was recently removed, and hbitmap.c part I forgot to
> remove...
Yes, but who used that dirty-bitmap.c interface? As far as I can tell,
nobody.
> Meta bitmaps were intended to control live migration of bitmaps and to
> implement something like partial sync of bitmaps (write to qcow2 only
> changed part of bitmap), but migration implemented in other way
> (postcopy) and the second thing was not implemented.
OK. I was wondering why they were implemented without ever having been
used (as far as I can tell).
Max
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-19 10:03 [PATCH v3 00/10] Further bitmaps improvements Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] hbitmap: assert that we don't create bitmap larger than INT64_MAX Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 10:51 ` Max Reitz
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] hbitmap: move hbitmap_iter_next_word to hbitmap.c Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 10:55 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 16:14 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] hbitmap: unpublish hbitmap_iter_skip_words Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 10:59 ` Max Reitz
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] hbitmap: drop meta bitmaps as they are unused Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 11:13 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 16:20 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 17:05 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2020-01-20 17:28 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 19:53 ` Eric Blake
2020-01-21 9:15 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] block/dirty-bitmap: switch _next_dirty_area and _next_zero to int64_t Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 11:59 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 12:28 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 12:53 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 19:56 ` Eric Blake
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] block/dirty-bitmap: add _next_dirty API Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 13:14 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 16:30 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-21 9:35 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] block/dirty-bitmap: improve _next_dirty_area API Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 13:58 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 16:26 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] nbd/server: introduce NBDExtentArray Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 20:20 ` Eric Blake
2020-01-21 10:25 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] nbd/server: use bdrv_dirty_bitmap_next_dirty_area Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 20:23 ` Eric Blake
2019-12-19 10:03 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] block/qcow2-bitmap: use bdrv_dirty_bitmap_next_dirty Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 14:18 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 16:05 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 9:08 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Further bitmaps improvements Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 14:20 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-20 16:33 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-01-20 20:25 ` Eric Blake
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