Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH v4 24/24] nbd/server: Add FLAG_PAYLOAD support to CMD_BLOCK_STATUS

Allow a client to request a subset of negotiated meta contexts. For example, a client may ask to use a single connection to learn about both block status and dirty bitmaps, but where the dirty bitmap queries only need to be performed on a subset of the disk; forcing the server to compute that information on block status queries in the rest of the disk is wasted effort (both at the server, and on the amount of traffic sent over the wire to be parsed and ignored by the client). Qemu as an NBD client never requests to use more than one meta context, so it has no need to use block status payloads. Testing this instead requires support from libnbd, which CAN access multiple meta contexts in parallel from a single NBD connection; an interop test submitted to the libnbd project at the same time as this patch demonstrates the feature working, as well as testing some corner cases (for example, when the payload length is longer than the export length), although other corner cases (like passing the same id duplicated) requires a protocol fuzzer because libnbd is not wired up to break the protocol that badly. This also includes tweaks to 'qemu-nbd --list' to show when a server is advertising the capability, and to the testsuite to reflect the addition to that output. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; ---

+++ b/nbd/server.c @@ -512,6 +512,9 @@ static int nbd_negotiate_handle_export_name(NBDClient *client, bool no_zeroes, if (client->mode >= NBD_MODE_STRUCTURED) { myflags |= NBD_FLAG_SEND_DF; } + if (client->mode >= NBD_MODE_EXTENDED && client->contexts.count) { + myflags |= NBD_FLAG_BLOCK_STAT_PAYLOAD; + }