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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 00/14] block: Make blockdev-create a job and sta
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 00/14] block: Make blockdev-create a job and stable API |
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Mon, 28 May 2018 10:42:40 +0200 |
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Am 25.05.2018 um 20:13 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 05/25/2018 11:33 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > This changes the x-blockdev-create QMP command so that it doesn't block
> > the monitor and the main loop any more, but starts a background job that
> > performs the image creation.
> >
> > The basic job as implemented here is all that is necessary to make image
> > creation asynchronous and to provide a QMP interface that can be marked
> > stable, but it still lacks a few features that jobs usually provide: The
> > job will ignore pause commands and it doesn't publish progress yet (so
> > both current-progress and total-progress stay at 0). These features can
> > be added later without breaking compatibility.
>
> Can we at least have total-progress start at 1, and current-progress move
> from 0 to 1 at completion? Seeing a 0/1 => 1/1 transition is better than a
> divide-by-zero 0/0 ratio throughout the entire job; and libvirt doesn't want
> to add any more special-casing of 0/0 than it already has (where it wants to
> treat that as "job not yet started" rather than the more usual sense that if
> total==current the job is hopefully complete).
Sure, I can do that.
Kevin
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- Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 00/14] block: Make blockdev-create a job and stable API, Eric Blake, 2018/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 00/14] block: Make blockdev-create a job and stable API,
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