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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/15] block: Convert bdrv_get_b


From: Fam Zheng
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/15] block: Convert bdrv_get_block_status_above() to bytes
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 17:32:52 +0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

On Mon, 07/03 17:14, Eric Blake wrote:
> We are gradually moving away from sector-based interfaces, towards
> byte-based.  In the common case, allocation is unlikely to ever use
> values that are not naturally sector-aligned, but it is possible
> that byte-based values will let us be more precise about allocation
> at the end of an unaligned file that can do byte-based access.
> 
> Changing the name of the function from bdrv_get_block_status_above()
> to bdrv_block_status_above() ensures that the compiler enforces that
> all callers are updated.  For now, the io.c layer still assert()s
> that all callers are sector-aligned, but that can be relaxed when a
> later patch implements byte-based block status in the drivers.
> 
> For the most part this patch is just the addition of scaling at the
> callers followed by inverse scaling at bdrv_block_status().  But some
> code, particularly bdrv_block_status(), gets a lot simpler because
> it no longer has to mess with sectors.
> 
> For ease of review, bdrv_get_block_status() was tackled separately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>



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