On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 5:51 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
This lets the app expose the virtual SCSI or IDE disks as solid state
devices by setting a rate of '1', or rotational media by setting a
rate between 1025 and 65534.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 docs/formatdomain.rst         | 13 ++++++++++---
 docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng |  5 +++++
 src/conf/domain_conf.c        | 11 +++++++++++
 src/conf/domain_conf.h        |  1 +
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index 741130bf21..224f44a0a2 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element.
        <source protocol="tftp" name="url_path">
          <host name="hostname" port="69"/>
        </source>
-       <target dev='hdi' bus='ide' tray='open'/>
+       <target dev='hdi' bus='ide' tray='open' rotation_rate='7200'/>
        <readonly/>
      </disk>
      <disk type='block' device='lun'>
@@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element.
            <source type='unix' path='/path/to/qemu-pr-helper' mode='client'/>
          </reservations>
        </source>
-       <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
+       <target dev='sda' bus='scsi' rotation_rate='1'/>
        <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='3' unit='0'/>
      </disk>
      <disk type='block' device='disk'>
@@ -2885,10 +2885,17 @@ paravirtualized driver is specified via the ``disk`` element.
    to "closed". NB, the value of ``tray`` could be updated while the domain is
    running. The optional attribute ``removable`` sets the removable flag for USB
    disks, and its value can be either "on" or "off", defaulting to "off".
+   The optional attribute ``rotation_rate`` sets the rotation rate of the
+   storage for disks on a SCSI, IDE, or SATA bus. Values in the range 1025 to
+   65534 are used to indicate rotational media spee in revolutions per minute.
I don't see any value range limitation in the libvirt code. Is it limited by qemu?
+   A value of one is used to indicate solid state, or otherwise non-rotational,
+   storage. These values are not required to match the values of the underlying
+   host storage.
    :since:`Since 0.0.3`; ``bus`` attribute :since:`since 0.4.3`; ``tray``
    attribute :since:`since 0.9.11`; "usb" attribute value
    :since:`since after 0.4.4`; "sata" attribute value :since:`since 0.9.7`;
-   "removable" attribute value :since:`since 1.1.3`
+   "removable" attribute value :since:`since 1.1.3`;
+   "rotation_rate" attribute value :since:`since 7.3.0`
 ``iotune``
    The optional ``iotune`` element provides the ability to provide additional
    per-device I/O tuning, with values that can vary for each device (contrast
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index f5ced5b7a2..2ff7862539 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -2230,6 +2230,11 @@
           <ref name="virOnOff"/>
         </attribute>
       </optional>
+      <optional>
+        <attribute name="rotation_rate">
+          <ref name="positiveInteger"/>
+        </attribute>
+      </optional>
     </element>
   </define>
   <define name="geometry">
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index d050a519c6..1e72171586 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -9319,6 +9319,7 @@ virDomainDiskDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
     g_autofree char *vendor = NULL;
     g_autofree char *product = NULL;
     g_autofree char *domain_name = NULL;
+    g_autofree char *rotation_rate = NULL;

     if (!(def = virDomainDiskDefNew(xmlopt)))
         return NULL;
@@ -9383,6 +9384,7 @@ virDomainDiskDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
             bus = virXMLPropString(cur, "bus");
             tray = virXMLPropString(cur, "tray");
             removable = virXMLPropString(cur, "removable");
+            rotation_rate = virXMLPropString(cur, "rotation_rate");

             /* HACK: Work around for compat with Xen
              * driver in previous libvirt releases */
@@ -9615,6 +9617,13 @@ virDomainDiskDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt,
         }
     }

+    if (rotation_rate &&
+        virStrToLong_ui(rotation_rate, NULL, 10, &def->rotation_rate) < 0) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                       _("Cannot parse rotation rate '%s'"), rotation_rate);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     if (virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML(xmlopt, node, ctxt, &def->info,
                                     flags | VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ALLOW_BOOT) < 0) {
         return NULL;
@@ -25141,6 +25150,8 @@ virDomainDiskDefFormat(virBufferPtr buf,
         virBufferAsprintf(buf, " removable='%s'",
                           virTristateSwitchTypeToString(def->removable));
     }
+    if (def->rotation_rate)
+        virBufferAsprintf(buf, " rotation_rate='%u'", def->rotation_rate);
     virBufferAddLit(buf, "/>\n");

     virDomainDiskDefFormatIotune(buf, def);
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 0b8895bbdf..3da9ba01bf 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ struct _virDomainDiskDef {
     char *dst;
     int tray_status; /* enum virDomainDiskTray */
     int removable; /* enum virTristateSwitch */
+    unsigned int rotation_rate;

     virStorageSourcePtr mirror;
     int mirrorState; /* enum virDomainDiskMirrorState */
--
2.30.2