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    mirror: introduce mirror job · 893f7eba
    Paolo Bonzini 提交于
    This patch adds the implementation of a new job that mirrors a disk to
    a new image while letting the guest continue using the old image.
    The target is treated as a "black box" and data is copied from the
    source to the target in the background.  This can be used for several
    purposes, including storage migration, continuous replication, and
    observation of the guest I/O in an external program.  It is also a
    first step in replacing the inefficient block migration code that is
    part of QEMU.
    
    The job is possibly never-ending, but it is logically structured into
    two phases: 1) copy all data as fast as possible until the target
    first gets in sync with the source; 2) keep target in sync and
    ensure that reopening to the target gets a correct (full) copy
    of the source data.
    
    The second phase is indicated by the progress in "info block-jobs"
    reporting the current offset to be equal to the length of the file.
    When the job is cancelled in the second phase, QEMU will run the
    job until the source is clean and quiescent, then it will report
    successful completion of the job.
    
    In other words, the BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED event means that the target
    may _not_ be consistent with a past state of the source; the
    BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED event means that the target is consistent with
    a past state of the source.  (Note that it could already happen
    that management lost the race against QEMU and got a completion
    event instead of cancellation).
    
    It is not yet possible to complete the job and switch over to the target
    disk.  The next patches will fix this and add many refinements to the
    basic idea introduced here.  These include improved error management,
    some tunable knobs and performance optimizations.
    Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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