Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v5 0/9] qemu: Add quorum support to libvirt
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Matthias Gatto matthias.ga...@outscale.com wrote: The purpose of these patches is to introduce quorum for libvirt I've try to follow this proposal: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00533.html This feature ask for 6 task: 1) Allow a _virStorageSource to contain more than one backing store. Because all the actual libvirt code use the backingStore field as a pointer and we needs want to change that, I've decide to encapsulate the backingStore field to simplifie the array manipulation. 2) Add the missing field a quorum need in _virStorageSource and the VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_QUORUM and VIR_STORAGE_FILE_QUORUM in their respectives enums. 3) Parse and format the xml Because a quorum allows to have more than one backing store at the same level we need to change virDomainDiskDefFormat and virDomainDiskDefParseXML to call virDomainDiskBackingStoreFormat and virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse in a loop. virDomainDiskBackingStoreFormat and virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse can call themself recursively in a loop because a quorum can contain another quorum 4) Add nodename We need to add nodename support in _virStorageSource because qemu use them for their child. 5) Build qemu string As for the xml, we have to call the function which create quorum recursively. But this task have the problem explained here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-October/msg00529.html The _virStorageSource missing some informations that can be passed to a child, and therefore this version of quorum is incomplet. 6) Allow to hotplug/change a disk in a quorum This part is not present in these patches because for this task we have to use blockdev-add, and currently libvirt use device_add for hotpluging that doesn't allow to hotplug quorum childs. There is 3 way to handle this problem: 1) create a virDomainBlockDevAdd function in libvirt witch call blockdev-add. 2) use blockdev-add instead of device_add in qemuMonitorJSONAddDevice 3) write a hack which uses blockdev-add when only attaching quorum (but i'm pretty sure this solution is not the good one) V2: -Rebase on master -Add Documentation V3: -Transforme the backingStore field in virStorageSource into an array of pointer instead of a pointer -Modify virStorageSourceSetBackingStore to allow it to expand the backingStore size. V4: -Rebase on master V5: -Rebase on master -patch 1-4/9: use patchs from John Ferlan -patch 4/9: check return of virStorageSourceSetBackingStore -patch 5/9: report type of error on virStorageSourceSetBackingStore Matthias Gatto (9): virstoragefile: Add virStorageSourceGetBackingStore virstoragefile: Always use virStorageSourceGetBackingStore to get backing store virstoragefile: Add virStorageSourceSetBackingStore virstoragefile: Always use virStorageSourceSetBackingStore to set backing store virstoragefile: change backingStore to backingStores. virstoragefile: Add quorum in virstoragefile domain_conf: Read and Write quorum config qemu: Add quorum support in qemuBuildDriveDevStr virstoragefile: Add node-name docs/formatdomain.html.in | 30 +- docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 26 - docs/schemas/storagecommon.rng| 1 + docs/schemas/storagevol.rng | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.c| 195 ++ src/conf/storage_conf.c | 23 ++-- src/libvirt_private.syms | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c| 4 +- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 114 src/qemu/qemu_domain.c| 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c| 39 --- src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 4 +- src/security/security_dac.c | 2 +- src/security/security_selinux.c | 4 +- src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 2 +- src/storage/storage_backend.c | 22 ++-- src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c | 38 --- src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c | 11 +- src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c | 15 ++- src/storage/storage_driver.c | 3 +- src/util/virstoragefile.c | 122 ++--- src/util/virstoragefile.h | 13 ++- tests/virstoragetest.c| 18 ++-- 24 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-) -- 2.3.5 ping -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
[libvirt] [PATCH v5 0/9] qemu: Add quorum support to libvirt
The purpose of these patches is to introduce quorum for libvirt I've try to follow this proposal: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00533.html This feature ask for 6 task: 1) Allow a _virStorageSource to contain more than one backing store. Because all the actual libvirt code use the backingStore field as a pointer and we needs want to change that, I've decide to encapsulate the backingStore field to simplifie the array manipulation. 2) Add the missing field a quorum need in _virStorageSource and the VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_QUORUM and VIR_STORAGE_FILE_QUORUM in their respectives enums. 3) Parse and format the xml Because a quorum allows to have more than one backing store at the same level we need to change virDomainDiskDefFormat and virDomainDiskDefParseXML to call virDomainDiskBackingStoreFormat and virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse in a loop. virDomainDiskBackingStoreFormat and virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse can call themself recursively in a loop because a quorum can contain another quorum 4) Add nodename We need to add nodename support in _virStorageSource because qemu use them for their child. 5) Build qemu string As for the xml, we have to call the function which create quorum recursively. But this task have the problem explained here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-October/msg00529.html The _virStorageSource missing some informations that can be passed to a child, and therefore this version of quorum is incomplet. 6) Allow to hotplug/change a disk in a quorum This part is not present in these patches because for this task we have to use blockdev-add, and currently libvirt use device_add for hotpluging that doesn't allow to hotplug quorum childs. There is 3 way to handle this problem: 1) create a virDomainBlockDevAdd function in libvirt witch call blockdev-add. 2) use blockdev-add instead of device_add in qemuMonitorJSONAddDevice 3) write a hack which uses blockdev-add when only attaching quorum (but i'm pretty sure this solution is not the good one) V2: -Rebase on master -Add Documentation V3: -Transforme the backingStore field in virStorageSource into an array of pointer instead of a pointer -Modify virStorageSourceSetBackingStore to allow it to expand the backingStore size. V4: -Rebase on master V5: -Rebase on master -patch 1-4/9: use patchs from John Ferlan -patch 4/9: check return of virStorageSourceSetBackingStore -patch 5/9: report type of error on virStorageSourceSetBackingStore Matthias Gatto (9): virstoragefile: Add virStorageSourceGetBackingStore virstoragefile: Always use virStorageSourceGetBackingStore to get backing store virstoragefile: Add virStorageSourceSetBackingStore virstoragefile: Always use virStorageSourceSetBackingStore to set backing store virstoragefile: change backingStore to backingStores. virstoragefile: Add quorum in virstoragefile domain_conf: Read and Write quorum config qemu: Add quorum support in qemuBuildDriveDevStr virstoragefile: Add node-name docs/formatdomain.html.in | 30 +- docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 26 - docs/schemas/storagecommon.rng| 1 + docs/schemas/storagevol.rng | 1 + src/conf/domain_conf.c| 195 ++ src/conf/storage_conf.c | 23 ++-- src/libvirt_private.syms | 2 + src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c| 4 +- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 114 src/qemu/qemu_domain.c| 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c| 39 --- src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 4 +- src/security/security_dac.c | 2 +- src/security/security_selinux.c | 4 +- src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 2 +- src/storage/storage_backend.c | 22 ++-- src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c | 38 --- src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c | 11 +- src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c | 15 ++- src/storage/storage_driver.c | 3 +- src/util/virstoragefile.c | 122 ++--- src/util/virstoragefile.h | 13 ++- tests/virstoragetest.c| 18 ++-- 24 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-) -- 2.3.5 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
