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Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] qcow2: add configurations for zoned format extension


From: Sam Li
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] qcow2: add configurations for zoned format extension
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:21:06 +0800

Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> 于2023年9月25日周一 21:05写道:
>
> Sam Li <faithilikerun@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > To configure the zoned format feature on the qcow2 driver, it
> > requires settings as: the device size, zone model, zone size,
> > zone capacity, number of conventional zones, limits on zone
> > resources (max append sectors, max open zones, and max_active_zones).
> >
> > To create a qcow2 file with zoned format, use command like this:
> > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 -o size=768M -o
> > zone_size=64M -o zone_capacity=64M -o nr_conv_zones=0 -o
> > max_append_sectors=512 -o max_open_zones=0 -o max_active_zones=0
> > -o zone_model=1
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sam Li <faithilikerun@gmail.com>
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
> > index 2b1d493d6e..2aad82c399 100644
> > --- a/qapi/block-core.json
> > +++ b/qapi/block-core.json
> > @@ -5021,6 +5021,27 @@
> >  # @compression-type: The image cluster compression method
> >  #     (default: zlib, since 5.1)
> >  #
> > +# @zone-model: Zoned device model, 1 for host-managed and 0 for
> > +#     non-zoned devices (default: 0, since 8.2)
>
> Shouldn't this be a QAPI enum rather than a number?
>
> > +#
> > +# @zone-size: Total number of logical blocks within zones in bytes
> > +#     (since 8.2)
> > +#
> > +# @zone-capacity: The number of usable logical blocks within zones
> > +#     in bytes.  A zone capacity is always smaller or equal to the
> > +#     zone size. (since 8.2)
> > +#
> > +# @nr-conv-zones: The number of conventional zones of the zoned device
> > +#     (since 8.2)
>
> I still think @conventional-zones would be more obvious.
>
> > +#
> > +# @max-open-zones: The maximal number of open zones (since 8.2)
> > +#
> > +# @max-active-zones: The limit of the zones that have the implicit
> > +#     open, explicit open or closed state (since 8.2)
>
> Maybe "The maximum number of zones in the implicit open, explicit open
> or closed state".
>
> (I'll repeat suggestions until you reject them, just to make sure they
> get ignored by accident)

Thanks for noticing. I will change them (enum, conv, maz) in v5.


>
> > +#
> > +# @max-append-sectors: The maximal number of 512-byte sectors of a zone
> > +#     append request that can be issued to the device. (since 8.2)
> > +#
> >  # Since: 2.12
> >  ##
> >  { 'struct': 'BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow2',
> > @@ -5037,7 +5058,14 @@
> >              '*preallocation':   'PreallocMode',
> >              '*lazy-refcounts':  'bool',
> >              '*refcount-bits':   'int',
> > -            '*compression-type':'Qcow2CompressionType' } }
> > +            '*compression-type':'Qcow2CompressionType',
> > +            '*zone-model':         'uint8',
> > +            '*zone-size':          'size',
> > +            '*zone-capacity':      'size',
> > +            '*nr-conv-zones':      'uint32',
> > +            '*max-open-zones':     'uint32',
> > +            '*max-active-zones':   'uint32',
> > +            '*max-append-sectors': 'uint32' } }
> >
> >  ##
> >  # @BlockdevCreateOptionsQed:
>



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