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[09/29] nbd: Add writethrough to block-export-add

Message ID 20200907182011.521007-10-kwolf@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series block/export: Add infrastructure and QAPI for block exports | expand

Commit Message

Kevin Wolf Sept. 7, 2020, 6:19 p.m. UTC
qemu-nbd allows use of writethrough cache modes, which mean that write
requests made through NBD will cause a flush before they complete.
Expose the same functionality in block-export-add.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 qapi/block-export.json | 7 ++++++-
 blockdev-nbd.c         | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Max Reitz Sept. 10, 2020, 11:15 a.m. UTC | #1
On 07.09.20 20:19, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> qemu-nbd allows use of writethrough cache modes, which mean that write
> requests made through NBD will cause a flush before they complete.
> Expose the same functionality in block-export-add.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  qapi/block-export.json | 7 ++++++-
>  blockdev-nbd.c         | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/qapi/block-export.json b/qapi/block-export.json
index 7dedd893ab..d95c082a33 100644
--- a/qapi/block-export.json
+++ b/qapi/block-export.json
@@ -170,10 +170,15 @@ 
 # Describes a block export, i.e. how single node should be exported on an
 # external interface.
 #
+# @writethrough: If true, caches are flushed after every write request to the
+#                export before completion is signalled. (since: 5.2;
+#                default: false)
+#
 # Since: 4.2
 ##
 { 'union': 'BlockExportOptions',
-  'base': { 'type': 'BlockExportType' },
+  'base': { 'type': 'BlockExportType',
+            '*writethrough': 'bool' },
   'discriminator': 'type',
   'data': {
       'nbd': 'BlockExportOptionsNbd'
diff --git a/blockdev-nbd.c b/blockdev-nbd.c
index 41d5542987..09247a8ded 100644
--- a/blockdev-nbd.c
+++ b/blockdev-nbd.c
@@ -216,9 +216,13 @@  BlockExport *nbd_export_create(BlockExportOptions *exp_args, Error **errp)
         goto out;
     }
 
+    if (!exp_args->has_writethrough) {
+        exp_args->writethrough = false;
+    }
+
     exp = nbd_export_new(bs, arg->name, arg->description, arg->bitmap,
                          !arg->writable, !arg->writable,
-                         NULL, false, errp);
+                         NULL, exp_args->writethrough, errp);
     if (!exp) {
         goto out;
     }