Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 21/21] iotests: Add test for different refcount widths

[Eric Blake]

On 11/20/2014 06:48 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> Sounds good, the only problem is that I'd have to hand-craft the image
> myself, because qemu generally uses self-references for refblocks (when
> allocating new refblocks, they will contain their own refcount).
> 
> I think this already would be too much effort (I'll reply to your second
> email right away ;-)). There is no fundamental difference in how new
> allocations for the new reftable and for the new refblocks are treated:
> If there's a new allocation, respin. If that works for the new reftable,
> that's enough to convince me it will work for new refblocks as well.

Agreed - one test of needing a third pass is sufficient to prove we
handle allocations until convergence.


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