From c117bb14ff633848cc6b0ff77f081f583dfa8c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kashyap Chamarthy Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:52:53 +0100 Subject: QAPI & interop: Clarify events emitted by 'block-job-cancel' When you cancel an in-progress 'mirror' job (or "active `block-commit`") with QMP `block-job-cancel`, it emits the event: BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED. However, when `block-job-cancel` is issued *after* `drive-mirror` has indicated (via the event BLOCK_JOB_READY) that the source and destination have reached synchronization: [...] # Snip `drive-mirror` invocation & outputs { "execute":"block-job-cancel", "arguments":{ "device":"virtio0" } } {"return": {}} It (`block-job-cancel`) will counterintuitively emit the event 'BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED': { "timestamp":{ "seconds":1510678024, "microseconds":526240 }, "event":"BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED", "data":{ "device":"virtio0", "len":41126400, "offset":41126400, "speed":0, "type":"mirror" } } But this is expected behaviour, where the _COMPLETED event indicates that synchronization has successfully ended (and the destination now has a point-in-time copy, which is at the time of cancel). So add a small note to this effect in 'block-core.json'. While at it, also update the "Live disk synchronization -- drive-mirror and blockdev-mirror" section in 'live-block-operations.rst'. (Thanks: Max Reitz for reminding me of this caveat on IRC.) Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst b/docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst index 5f0179749f..734252bc80 100644 --- a/docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst +++ b/docs/interop/live-block-operations.rst @@ -506,26 +506,40 @@ Again, given our familiar disk image chain:: [A] <-- [B] <-- [C] <-- [D] -The ``drive-mirror`` (and its newer equivalent ``blockdev-mirror``) allows -you to copy data from the entire chain into a single target image (which -can be located on a different host). - -Once a 'mirror' job has started, there are two possible actions while a -``drive-mirror`` job is active: - -(1) Issuing the command ``block-job-cancel`` after it emits the event - ``BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED``: will (after completing synchronization of - the content from the disk image chain to the target image, [E]) - create a point-in-time (which is at the time of *triggering* the - cancel command) copy, contained in image [E], of the the entire disk +The ``drive-mirror`` (and its newer equivalent ``blockdev-mirror``) +allows you to copy data from the entire chain into a single target image +(which can be located on a different host), [E]. + +.. note:: + + When you cancel an in-progress 'mirror' job *before* the source and + target are synchronized, ``block-job-cancel`` will emit the event + ``BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED``. However, note that if you cancel a + 'mirror' job *after* it has indicated (via the event + ``BLOCK_JOB_READY``) that the source and target have reached + synchronization, then the event emitted by ``block-job-cancel`` + changes to ``BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED``. + + Besides the 'mirror' job, the "active ``block-commit``" is the only + other block device job that emits the event ``BLOCK_JOB_READY``. + The rest of the block device jobs ('stream', "non-active + ``block-commit``", and 'backup') end automatically. + +So there are two possible actions to take, after a 'mirror' job has +emitted the event ``BLOCK_JOB_READY``, indicating that the source and +target have reached synchronization: + +(1) Issuing the command ``block-job-cancel`` (after it emits the event + ``BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED``) will create a point-in-time (which is at + the time of *triggering* the cancel command) copy of the entire disk image chain (or only the top-most image, depending on the ``sync`` - mode). + mode), contained in the target image [E]. One use case for this is + live VM migration with non-shared storage. -(2) Issuing the command ``block-job-complete`` after it emits the event - ``BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED``: will, after completing synchronization of - the content, adjust the guest device (i.e. live QEMU) to point to - the target image, and, causing all the new writes from this point on - to happen there. One use case for this is live storage migration. +(2) Issuing the command ``block-job-complete`` (after it emits the event + ``BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED``) will adjust the guest device (i.e. live + QEMU) to point to the target image, [E], causing all the new writes + from this point on to happen there. About synchronization modes: The synchronization mode determines *which* part of the disk image chain will be copied to the target. -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522