Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 6/6] block: add -drive copy-on-read=on|off

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:32:17PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 17.10.2011 17:47, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> > This patch adds the -drive copy-on-read=on|off command-line option:
> > 
> >   copy-on-read=on|off
> >   copy-on-read is "on" or "off" and enables whether to copy read backing
> >   file sectors into the image file.  Copy-on-read avoids accessing the
> >   same backing file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing
> >   file is over a slow network.  By default copy-on-read is off.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  blockdev.c      |    6 ++++++
> >  hmp-commands.hx |    5 +++--
> >  qemu-config.c   |    4 ++++
> >  qemu-options.hx |    9 ++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
> > index 0827bf7..1dd0f23 100644
> > --- a/blockdev.c
> > +++ b/blockdev.c
> > @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, int 
> > default_to_scsi)
> >      const char *devaddr;
> >      DriveInfo *dinfo;
> >      int snapshot = 0;
> > +    int copy_on_read;
> 
> Another s/int/bool/ :-)

In general I use bool but in this case I hesitated since the other
variables are int I tried to stick with the style.  I'm happy to change
it if you prefer bool.

Stefan