From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>,
nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Pavel Borzenkov <pborzenkov@virtuozzo.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] NBD proto: add GET_LBA_STATUS extension
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:40:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <570298FE.8090501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458742562-30624-3-git-send-email-den@openvz.org>
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On 03/23/2016 08:16 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> From: Pavel Borzenkov <pborzenkov@virtuozzo.com>
>
> With the availability of sparse storage formats, it is often needed to
> query status of a particular LBA range and read only those blocks of
> data that are actually present on the block device.
>
> To provide such information, the patch adds GET_LBA_STATUS extension
> with one new NBD_CMD_GET_LBA_STATUS command.
>
> There exists a concept of data dirtiness, which is required during, for
> example, incremental block device backup. To express this concept via
> NBD protocol, this patch also adds additional mode of operation to
> NBD_CMD_GET_LBA_STATUS command.
>
> Since NBD protocol has no notion of block size, and to mimic SCSI "GET
> LBA STATUS" command more closely, it has been chosen to return a list of
> extents in the response of NBD_CMD_GET_LBA_STATUS command, instead of a
> bitmap.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Borzenkov <pborzenkov@virtuozzo.com>
> Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> CC: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
> doc/proto.md | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+)
I've posted a v2 of this proposal under a new title, rebased on top of
the recent work to add structured replies, and trying to take into
account a number of the suggestions that occurred in this thread.
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 14:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] NBD protocol extensions: WRITE_ZEROES and GET_LBA_STATUS Denis V. Lunev
2016-03-23 14:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] NBD proto: add WRITE_ZEROES extension Denis V. Lunev
2016-03-23 15:14 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-23 17:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 7:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 7:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-23 17:21 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 7:57 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 8:26 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 11:35 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 11:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 12:31 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 14:53 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-23 14:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] NBD proto: add GET_LBA_STATUS extension Denis V. Lunev
2016-03-23 16:27 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-24 12:30 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 15:04 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-24 16:36 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-23 17:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-23 18:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-03-24 8:25 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 8:41 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 11:36 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 12:32 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 8:43 ` Pavel Borzenkov
2016-03-24 9:33 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 10:32 ` Alex Bligh
2016-03-24 11:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 12:17 ` Alex Bligh
2016-03-24 12:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 13:31 ` Alex Bligh
2016-03-24 13:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 11:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 12:43 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 15:25 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-24 15:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 15:53 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-24 16:04 ` Eric Blake
2016-03-24 16:07 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-03-24 16:47 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-29 9:38 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-03-29 9:53 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-29 10:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-24 22:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eric Blake
2016-03-25 8:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-25 9:01 ` Alex Bligh
2016-03-28 15:58 ` Eric Blake
2016-04-04 10:32 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-04-04 10:18 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-04-04 16:54 ` Eric Blake
2016-04-04 22:17 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-04-04 16:40 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2016-04-04 20:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Denis V. Lunev
2016-04-04 20:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] " Eric Blake
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