Re: [PATCH v4 5/9] blockdev: Split off basic bitmap operations for qemu-img

2020-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 5/14/20 1:21 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: 13.05.2020 04:16, Eric Blake wrote: Upcoming patches want to add some basic bitmap manipulation abilities to qemu-img.  But blockdev.o is too heavyweight to link into qemu-img (among other things, it would drag in block jobs and transaction

Re: [PATCH v4 5/9] blockdev: Split off basic bitmap operations for qemu-img

2020-05-13 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
13.05.2020 04:16, Eric Blake wrote: Upcoming patches want to add some basic bitmap manipulation abilities to qemu-img. But blockdev.o is too heavyweight to link into qemu-img (among other things, it would drag in block jobs and transaction support - qemu-img does offline manipulation, where atom

[PATCH v4 5/9] blockdev: Split off basic bitmap operations for qemu-img

2020-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
Upcoming patches want to add some basic bitmap manipulation abilities to qemu-img. But blockdev.o is too heavyweight to link into qemu-img (among other things, it would drag in block jobs and transaction support - qemu-img does offline manipulation, where atomicity is less important because there