On Wed 03 Jun 2015 09:43:54 PM CEST, Max Reitz wrote:
> BlockAcctStats contains statistics about the data transferred from and
> to the device; wr_highest_sector does not fit in with the rest.
>
> Furthermore, those statistics are supposed to be specific for a certain
> device and not necessarily for a BDS (see the comment above
> bdrv_get_stats()); on the other hand, wr_highest_sector may be a rather
> important information to know for each BDS. When BlockAcctStats is
> finally removed from the BDS, we will want to keep wr_highest_sector in
> the BDS.
>
> Finally, wr_highest_sector is renamed to wr_highest_offset and given the
> appropriate meaning. Externally, it is represented as an offset so there
> is no point in doing something different internally. Its definition is
> changed to match that in qapi/block-core.json which is "the offset after
> the greatest byte written to". Doing so should not cause any harm since
> if external programs tried to calculate the volume usage by
> (wr_highest_offset + 512) / volume_size, after this patch they will just
> assume the volume to be full slightly earlier than before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>

Berto

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