Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH v3 03/14] nbd/server: Prepare for alternate-size headers

Upstream NBD now documents[1] an extension that supports 64-bit effect lengths in requests. As part of that extension, the size of the reply headers will change in order to permit a 64-bit length in the reply for symmetry[2]. Additionally, where the reply header is currently 16 bytes for simple reply, and 20 bytes for structured reply; with the extension enabled, there will only be one structured reply type, of 32 bytes. Since we are already wired up to use iovecs, it is easiest to allow for this change in header size by splitting each structured reply across two iovecs, one for the header (which will become variable-length in a future patch according to client negotiation), and the other for the payload, and removing the header from the payload struct definitions. Interestingly, the client side code never utilized the packed types, so only the server code needs to be updated.

[1] https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/blob/extension-ext-header/doc/p... as of NBD commit e6f3b94a934 [2] Note that on the surface, this is because some future server might permit a 4G+ NBD_CMD_READ and need to reply with that much data in one transaction. But even though the extended reply length is widened to 64 bits, for now the NBD spec is clear that servers will not reply with more than a maximum payload bounded by the 32-bit NBD_INFO_BLOCK_SIZE field; allowing a client and server to mutually agree to transactions larger than 4G would require yet another extension. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt;

--- include/block/nbd.h | 8 +++--- nbd/server.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

-static inline void set_be_chunk(NBDStructuredReplyChunk *chunk, uint16_t flags, - uint16_t type, uint64_t handle, uint32_t length) +static inline void set_be_chunk(NBDClient *client, struct iovec *iov,

+ uint16_t flags, uint16_t type, + uint64_t handle, uint32_t length) { + NBDStructuredReplyChunk *chunk = iov->iov_base; + + iov->iov_len = sizeof(*chunk); stl_be_p(&chunk->magic, NBD_STRUCTURED_REPLY_MAGIC); stw_be_p(&chunk->flags, flags); stw_be_p(&chunk->type, type);