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    virsh: Add snapshot-list --topological · c615c142
    Eric Blake 提交于
    For snapshots, virsh already has a (shockingly naive [1]) client-side
    topological sorter with the --tree option. But as a series of REDEFINE
    calls must be presented in topological order, it's worth letting the
    server do the work for us, especially since the server can give us a
    topological sorting with less effort than our naive client
    reconstruction.
    
    [1] The XXX comment in virshSnapshotListCollect() about --tree being
    O(n^3) is telling; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting
    is an interesting resource describing Kahn's algorithm and other
    approaches for O(n) topological sorting for anyone motivated to use a
    more elegant algorithm than brute force - but that doesn't affect this
    patch.
    
    For now, I am purposefully NOT implementing virsh fallback code to
    provide a topological sort when the flag was rejected as unsupported;
    we can worry about that down the road if users actually demonstrate
    that they use new virsh but old libvirt to even need the fallback.
    (The code we use for --tree could be repurposed to be such a fallback,
    whether or not we keep it naive or improve it to be faster - but
    again, no one should spend time on a fallback without evidence that we
    need it.)
    
    The test driver makes it easy to test:
    $ virsh -c test:///default '
    snapshot-create-as test a
    snapshot-create-as test c
    snapshot-create-as test b
    snapshot-list test
    snapshot-list test --topological
    snapshot-list test --descendants a
    snapshot-list test --descendants a --topological
    snapshot-list test --tree
    snapshot-list test --tree --topological
    '
    
    Without any flags, virsh does client-side sorting alphabetically, and
    lists 'b' before 'c' (even though 'c' is the parent of 'b'); with the
    flag, virsh skips sorting, and you can now see that the server handed
    back data in a correct ordering. As shown here with a simple linear
    chain, there isn't any other possible ordering, so --tree mode doesn't
    seem to care whether --topological is used.  But it is possible to
    compose more complicated DAGs with multiple children to a parent
    (representing reverting back to a snapshot then creating more
    snapshots along those divergent execution timelines), where it is then
    possible (but not guaranteed) that adding the --topological flag
    changes the --tree output (the client-side --tree algorithm breaks
    ties based on alphabetical sorting between two nodes that share the
    same parent, while the --topological sort skips the client-side
    alphabetical sort and ends up exposing the server's internal order for
    siblings, whether that be historical creation order or dependent on a
    random hash seed).  But even if the results differ, they will still be
    topologically correct.
    Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: NJán Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: NDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
    c615c142
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