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authorFam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>2014-09-11 14:09:56 +0800
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2014-09-22 11:39:23 +0100
commite819ab22777fd455d5b130afe48c808d35ef7e93 (patch)
tree7701c3c369c7c9e03e17e84aca651c679b8d67ac /qapi
parenta90d411e63ef29bb99b984e0fdb7796aeee1c724 (diff)
block: Introduce "null" drivers
This is an analogue to Linux null_blk. It can be used for testing or benchmarking block device emulation and general block layer functionalities such as coroutines and throttling, where disk IO is not necessary or wanted. Use null-aio:// for AIO version, and null-co:// for coroutine version. [Resolved conflict with Fam's async bdrv_aio_cancel() series: 1. Drop .bdrv_aio_cancel() since it is now done by block.c 2. Rename qemu_aio_release() to qemu_aio_unref() --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: BenoƮt Canet <benoit.canet@nodalink.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 1410415798-20673-2-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qapi')
-rw-r--r--qapi/block-core.json19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index 95dcd81ed4..a886b5d3e4 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -1151,7 +1151,8 @@
'data': [ 'archipelago', 'file', 'host_device', 'host_cdrom', 'host_floppy',
'http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'tftp', 'vvfat', 'blkdebug',
'blkverify', 'bochs', 'cloop', 'cow', 'dmg', 'parallels', 'qcow',
- 'qcow2', 'qed', 'raw', 'vdi', 'vhdx', 'vmdk', 'vpc', 'quorum' ] }
+ 'qcow2', 'qed', 'raw', 'vdi', 'vhdx', 'vmdk', 'vpc', 'quorum',
+ 'null-aio', 'null-co' ] }
##
# @BlockdevOptionsBase
@@ -1204,6 +1205,18 @@
'data': { 'filename': 'str' } }
##
+# @BlockdevOptionsNull
+#
+# Driver specific block device options for the null backend.
+#
+# @size: #optional size of the device in bytes.
+#
+# Since: 2.2
+##
+{ 'type': 'BlockdevOptionsNull',
+ 'data': { '*size': 'int' } }
+
+##
# @BlockdevOptionsVVFAT
#
# Driver specific block device options for the vvfat protocol.
@@ -1503,7 +1516,9 @@
'vhdx': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat',
'vmdk': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat',
'vpc': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat',
- 'quorum': 'BlockdevOptionsQuorum'
+ 'quorum': 'BlockdevOptionsQuorum',
+ 'null-aio': 'BlockdevOptionsNull',
+ 'null-co': 'BlockdevOptionsNull'
} }
##