On a Thursday in 2021, Peter Krempa wrote:
See patch 3/5 for explanation.
Peter Krempa (5):
virDomainDiskDefFormatDriver: Rename 'driverBuf' to 'attrBuf'
virDomainSnapshotDiskDefFormat: Use virXMLFormatElement
conf: Introduce <metadata_cache> subelement of <disk><driver>
conf: snapshot: Add support for <metadata_cache>
qemu: Implement '<metadata_cache><max_size>' control for qcow2
docs/formatdomain.rst | 43 ++++++++++
docs/formatsnapshot.html.in | 4 +
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 20 ++++-
docs/schemas/domainsnapshot.rng | 10 ++-
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 81 ++++++++++++++-----
src/conf/snapshot_conf.c | 50 ++++++++----
src/qemu/qemu_block.c | 11 +++
src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 15 ++++
src/qemu/qemu_snapshot.c | 14 ++++
src/util/virstoragefile.c | 1 +
src/util/virstoragefile.h | 2 +
.../qcow2-metadata-cache.xml | 14 ++++
.../qcow2-metadata-cache.xml | 18 +++++
tests/qemudomainsnapshotxml2xmltest.c | 3 +
.../disk-metadata-cache.x86_64-latest.args | 57 +++++++++++++
.../qemuxml2argvdata/disk-metadata-cache.xml | 46 +++++++++++
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 1 +
.../disk-metadata-cache.x86_64-latest.xml | 58 +++++++++++++
tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 +
19 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tests/qemudomainsnapshotxml2xmlin/qcow2-metadata-cache.xml
create mode 100644 tests/qemudomainsnapshotxml2xmlout/qcow2-metadata-cache.xml
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/disk-metadata-cache.x86_64-latest.args
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/disk-metadata-cache.xml
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/disk-metadata-cache.x86_64-latest.xml
Okay, so IIUC the difference to the previous attempts [0] is that this
series that were rejected is, that this only uses 'cache-size' instead
of the finer options. Fine by me:
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko(a)redhat.com>
Jano
[0]
[libvirt] [PATCH v6 0/2] Add support for qcow2 cache by Liu Qing:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-September/msg00553.html
[libvirt] [RFC] add option to configure qcow2 cache sizes in domain xml
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-April/msg00773.html