Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 09/11] blockdev: add DriveBackup transaction

[Eric Blake]

On 05/30/2013 06:34 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> This patch adds a transactional version of the drive-backup QMP command.
> It allows atomic snapshots of multiple drives along with automatic
> cleanup if there is a failure to start one of the backup jobs.
> 
> Note that QMP events are emitted for block job completion/cancellation
> and the block job will be listed by query-block-jobs.
> 

> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
>  blockdev.c       | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  qapi-schema.json | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

It would be nice if we could avoid copy-and-paste between the
transaction and the self-standing command, perhaps by teaching the qapi
code generator to recognize:

{ 'command': 'foo', 'data': 'DictType' }

as shorthand for

{ 'command': 'foo', 'data': { ...inlined contents of DictType... } }

But that is a cleanup that would apply to other existing qapi commands,
and is therefore better done as an independent series, and therefore
does not stop me from giving:

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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