[Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 02:06 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > IMHO, this is asking for two commands, where cases 1 & 2 is one of them > and cases 3 & 4 is the other one. Note how 'incremental' goes away and > 'new_image_file' really becomes an optional. I really would have no idea on naming except perhaps "dri

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 08:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/27/2012 02:06 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: IMHO, this is asking for two commands, where cases 1& 2 is one of them and cases 3& 4 is the other one. Note how 'incremental' goes away and 'new_image_file' really becomes an optional. I really would

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 03:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I think a better way to think of this is as a batch submission. It > would be relatively easy to model in QMP too (just have a batch-command > that has a list of commands as it's argument). > > The difference between batch submission and a transact

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 08:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/27/2012 03:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: I think a better way to think of this is as a batch submission. It would be relatively easy to model in QMP too (just have a batch-command that has a list of commands as it's argument). The difference b

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 03:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > The problem is that the current commands are not designed well. For > instance, multi-snapshot could look like: > > block-freeze ide0-hd0 > block-freeze ide1-hd1 > block-reopen ide0-hd0 my-new-file0.qcow2 > block-reopen ide1-hd1 my-new-file1.qcow2

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 09:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/27/2012 03:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: The problem is that the current commands are not designed well. For instance, multi-snapshot could look like: block-freeze ide0-hd0 block-freeze ide1-hd1 block-reopen ide0-hd0 my-new-file0.qcow2 block-r

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 27.02.2012 15:59, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 02/27/2012 08:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 02/27/2012 03:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> I think a better way to think of this is as a batch submission. It >>> would be relatively easy to model in QMP too (just have a batch-command >>> that

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 09:17 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: Am 27.02.2012 15:59, schrieb Anthony Liguori: On 02/27/2012 08:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/27/2012 03:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: I think a better way to think of this is as a batch submission. It would be relatively easy to model in QMP too (

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Federico Simoncelli
- Original Message - > From: "Paolo Bonzini" > To: "Luiz Capitulino" > Cc: "Federico Simoncelli" , kw...@redhat.com, > mtosa...@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, > arm...@redhat.com, "Jeff Cody" > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:39:33 PM > Subject: drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 05:33 PM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: >> > >> > blockdev-begin-transaction >> > drive-reopen device new-image-file >> > drive-mirror streaming=false device dest >> > blockdev-commit-transaction >> > >> > No strange optional arguments, no proliferation of commands, etc

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 10:33 AM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: I'm all for the modularity of the commands (I suggested it since the beginning), but all this infrastructure goes way beyond what I'd need for oVirt now. When I submitted my patches we knew that my work wasn't the definitive solution (eg: the fu

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Federico Simoncelli
; > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:42:31 PM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the > blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate > commands) > > On 02/27/2012 10:33 AM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: > > I'm all for the modularity o

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 04:24 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Then you get an error with the block devices still frozen. You can > execute another command to reopen back to the old image to roll back the > transaction. > > Pushing the rollback logic to the client does make the client interface > a bit more

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 10:33 AM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: I'm all for the modularity of the commands (I suggested it since the beginning), but all this infrastructure goes way beyond what I'd need for oVirt now. When I submitted my patches we knew that my work wasn't the definitive solution (eg: the fu

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 05:53 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> It looks like this is exactly >> the case where the core infrastructure (transactions) is missing. > > Batch requests are incredibly easy to add. I'm stuck in meetings for > the next couple days but I'm sure Luiz throw it together in no time at al

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 10:51 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/27/2012 04:24 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Then you get an error with the block devices still frozen. You can execute another command to reopen back to the old image to roll back the transaction. Pushing the rollback logic to the client does ma

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/27/2012 10:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/27/2012 05:53 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: It looks like this is exactly the case where the core infrastructure (transactions) is missing. Batch requests are incredibly easy to add. I'm stuck in meetings for the next couple days but I'm sure Lu

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 02/27/2012 05:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> Jeff could rework his patches to work with transaction begin/commit >> commands, and Federico can then add drive-reopen and drive-migrate on >> top. > > Yes, maybe I lack imagination but I fail to see how it generalizes > easily/nicely. > From

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive transactions (was Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Add the blockdev-reopen and blockdev-migrate commands)

2012-02-27 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:42:31 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 02/27/2012 10:33 AM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: > > I'm all for the modularity of the commands (I suggested it since the > > beginning), > > but all this infrastructure goes way beyond what I'd need for oVirt now. > > > > When I subm