Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 0/9] add internal snapshot support at block device level

[Wenchao Xia]

  Any comments for this version?

>    This series brings internal snapshot support at block devices level, now we
> have two three methods to do block snapshot lively: 1) backing chain,
> 2) internal one and 3) drive-back up approach.
> 
> Comparation:
>               Advantages:                            Disadvantages:
> 1)    delta data, taken fast, export, size        performance, delete slow.
> 2)  taken fast, delete fast, performance, size       delta data, format
> 3)      performance, export, format               taken slow, delta data, size
> 
>    I think in most case, saving vmstate in an standalone file is better than
> saving it inside qcow2, So suggest treat internal snapshot as block level
> methods and not encourage user to savevm in qcow2 any more.
> 
> Implemention details:
>    To avoid trouble, this serial have hide ID in create interfaces, this make
> sure no chaos of ID and name will be introduced by these interfaces.
>    There is one patch may be common to Pavel's savvm transaction, patch 1/11,
> others are not quite related. Patch 1/11 will not set errp when no snapshot
> find, since patch 3/11 need to distinguish real error case.
> 
> Next steps to better full VM snapshot:
>    Improve internal snapshot's export capability.
>    Better vmstate saving.
> 
>    Thanks Kevin to give advisement about how add it in qmp_transaction, oldest
> version comes drom Dietmar Maurer.
> 
> v3:
>    General:
>    Rebased after Stenfan's driver-backup patch V6.
> 
>    Address Eric's comments:
>    4/9: grammar fix and better doc.
>    5/9: parameter name is mandatory now. grammar fix.
>    6/9: redesiged interface: take both id and name as optional parameter, 
> return
> the deleted snapshot's info.
> 
>    Address Stefan's comments:
>    4/9: add '' around %s in message. drop code comments about vm_clock.
>    9/9: better doc, refined the code and add more test case.
> 
> 
> Wenchao Xia (9):
>    1 snapshot: new function bdrv_snapshot_find_by_id_and_name()
>    2 snapshot: add paired functions for internal snapshot id and name
>    3 snapshot: distinguish id and name in snapshot delete
>    4 qmp: add internal snapshot support in qmp_transaction
>    5 qmp: add interface blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync
>    6 qmp: add interface blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync
>    7 hmp: add interface hmp_snapshot_blkdev_internal
>    8 hmp: add interface hmp_snapshot_delete_blkdev_internal
>    9 qemu-iotests: add 056 internal snapshot for block device test case
> 
>   block/qcow2-snapshot.c     |   68 +++++++++---
>   block/qcow2.h              |    5 +-
>   block/rbd.c                |   23 ++++-
>   block/sheepdog.c           |    5 +-
>   block/snapshot.c           |  130 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>   blockdev.c                 |  191 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hmp-commands.hx            |   37 ++++++-
>   hmp.c                      |   22 ++++
>   hmp.h                      |    2 +
>   include/block/block_int.h  |    5 +-
>   include/block/snapshot.h   |   14 ++-
>   include/qemu-common.h      |    3 +
>   qapi-schema.json           |   67 +++++++++++-
>   qemu-img.c                 |    5 +-
>   qmp-commands.hx            |  104 ++++++++++++++++-
>   savevm.c                   |   10 ++-
>   tests/qemu-iotests/056     |  267 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   tests/qemu-iotests/056.out |    5 +
>   tests/qemu-iotests/group   |    1 +
>   19 files changed, 926 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/056
>   create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/056.out
> 
> 


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Best Regards

Wenchao Xia