Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Further bitmaps improvements

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

14.11.2019 21:47, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/22/19 7:58 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The main feature here is improvement of _next_dirty_area API, which I'm
>> going to use then for backup / block-copy.
>>
>> v2:
>> 01: just use INT64_MAX instead of adding new constant
>> 08: add separate function nbd_extent_array_convert_to_be and converted
>>      state of NBDExtentArray, to make these things explicit, and avoid
>>      extra memdup.
>> 09: Save part of comment for bitmap_to_extents(), add Eric's r-b
> 
> Is any of this series a bug fix important to get into -rc2?

Nothing

> Or is it safe to defer to the 5.0 timeframe?

Yes, no doubts.

> 
>>
>> Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy (10):
>>    hbitmap: assert that we don't create bitmap larger than INT64_MAX
>>    hbitmap: move hbitmap_iter_next_word to hbitmap.c
>>    hbitmap: unpublish hbitmap_iter_skip_words
>>    hbitmap: drop meta bitmaps as they are unused
>>    block/dirty-bitmap: switch _next_dirty_area and _next_zero to int64_t
>>    block/dirty-bitmap: add _next_dirty API
>>    block/dirty-bitmap: improve _next_dirty_area API
>>    nbd/server: introduce NBDExtentArray
>>    nbd/server: use bdrv_dirty_bitmap_next_dirty_area
>>    block/qcow2-bitmap: use bdrv_dirty_bitmap_next_dirty
>>
> 


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Best regards,
Vladimir