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[v6,4/4] Qemu: Add commandline -drive option 'hostcache'

Message ID 20110805065704.5829.84280.sendpatchset@skannery
State New
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Supriya Kannery Aug. 5, 2011, 6:57 a.m. UTC
qemu command option 'hostcache' added to -drive for block devices.
While starting a VM from qemu commandline, this option can be used 
for setting host cache usage for block data access. It is not 
allowed to specify both 'hostcache' and 'cache' options in the same 
commandline.

Signed-off-by: Supriya Kannery <supriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

---
 blockdev.c      |   13 +++++++++++++
 qemu-config.c   |    4 ++++
 qemu-options.hx |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Index: qemu/blockdev.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/blockdev.c
+++ qemu/blockdev.c
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@  DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, in
     DriveInfo *dinfo;
     int snapshot = 0;
     int ret;
+    int hostcache = 0;
 
     translation = BIOS_ATA_TRANSLATION_AUTO;
     media = MEDIA_DISK;
@@ -320,7 +321,19 @@  DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, in
 	}
     }
 
+    if ((hostcache = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "hostcache", -1)) != -1) {
+        if (!hostcache) {
+            bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
+        } else {
+            bdrv_flags &= ~BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
+        }
+    }
+
     if ((buf = qemu_opt_get(opts, "cache")) != NULL) {
+        if (hostcache != -1) {
+            error_report("'hostcache' and 'cache' cannot co-exist");
+            return NULL;
+        }
         if (!strcmp(buf, "off") || !strcmp(buf, "none")) {
             bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB;
         } else if (!strcmp(buf, "writeback")) {
Index: qemu/qemu-options.hx
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/qemu-options.hx
+++ qemu/qemu-options.hx
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@  DEF("drive", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_drive,
     "       [,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s[,trans=t]][,snapshot=on|off]\n"
     "       [,cache=writethrough|writeback|none|unsafe][,format=f]\n"
     "       [,serial=s][,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|native]\n"
-    "       [,readonly=on|off]\n"
+    "       [,readonly=on|off][,hostcache=on|off]\n"
     "                use 'file' as a drive image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 STEXI
 @item -drive @var{option}[,@var{option}[,@var{option}[,...]]]
Index: qemu/qemu-config.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/qemu-config.c
+++ qemu/qemu-config.c
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@  static QemuOptsList qemu_drive_opts = {
             .name = "readonly",
             .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
             .help = "open drive file as read-only",
+        },{
+            .name = "hostcache",
+            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+            .help = "set or reset hostcache (on/off)"
         },
         { /* end of list */ }
     },