Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-09-08 Thread Markus Armbruster
Eric Blake writes: > From: John Snow > > This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because > there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or > won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into block-dirty-bitmap-merge. > > It was designed with different

[PATCH v4 1/5] block: add bitmap-populate job

2020-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
From: John Snow This job copies the allocation map into a bitmap. It's a job because there's no guarantee that allocation interrogation will be quick (or won't hang), so it cannot be retrofitted into block-dirty-bitmap-merge. It was designed with different possible population patterns in mind,