I apologize for the delayed review.
Sam Li <faithilike...@gmail.com> writes:
> To configure the zoned format feature on the qcow2 driver, it
> requires settings as: the device size, zone model, zone size,
> zone capacity, number of conventional zones, limits on zone
> resources (max append bytes, max open zones, and max_active_zones).
>
> To create a qcow2 image with zoned format feature, use command like
> this:
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 zbc.qcow2 -o size=768M \
> -o zone.size=64M -o zone.capacity=64M -o zone.conventional_zones=0 \
> -o zone.max_append_bytes=4096 -o zone.max_open_zones=6 \
> -o zone.max_active_zones=8 -o zone.mode=host-managed
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Li <faithilike...@gmail.com>
[...]
> diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
> index ca390c5700..e2e0ec21a5 100644
> --- a/qapi/block-core.json
> +++ b/qapi/block-core.json
> @@ -5038,6 +5038,67 @@
> { 'enum': 'Qcow2CompressionType',
> 'data': [ 'zlib', { 'name': 'zstd', 'if': 'CONFIG_ZSTD' } ] }
>
> +##
> +# @Qcow2ZoneModel:
> +#
> +# Zoned device model used in qcow2 image file
> +#
> +# @host-managed: The host-managed model only allows sequential write over the
> +# device zones.
> +#
> +# Since 8.2
> +##
> +{ 'enum': 'Qcow2ZoneModel',
> + 'data': [ 'host-managed'] }
> +
> +##
> +# @Qcow2ZoneHostManaged:
> +#
> +# The host-managed zone model. It only allows sequential writes.
> +#
> +# @size: Total number of bytes within zones.
Default?
> +#
> +# @capacity: The number of usable logical blocks within zones
> +# in bytes. A zone capacity is always smaller or equal to the
> +# zone size.
Default?
> +#
> +# @conventional-zones: The number of conventional zones of the
> +# zoned device (default 0).
> +#
> +# @max-open-zones: The maximal number of open zones. It is less than
> +# or equal to the number of sequential write required zones of
> +# the device (default 0).
> +#
> +# @max-active-zones: The maximal number of zones in the implicit
> +# open, explicit open or closed state. It is less than or equal
> +# to the max open zones (default 0).
> +#
> +# @max-append-bytes: The maximal number of bytes of a zone
> +# append request that can be issued to the device. It must be
> +# 512-byte aligned and less than the zone capacity.
Default?
> +#
> +# Since 8.2
> +##
> +{ 'struct': 'Qcow2ZoneHostManaged',
> + 'data': { '*size': 'size',
> + '*capacity': 'size',
> + '*conventional-zones': 'uint32',
> + '*max-open-zones': 'uint32',
> + '*max-active-zones': 'uint32',
> + '*max-append-bytes': 'size' } }
> +
> +##
> +# @Qcow2ZoneCreateOptions:
> +#
> +# The zone device model for the qcow2 image.
> +#
> +# Since 8.2
> +##
> +{ 'union': 'Qcow2ZoneCreateOptions',
> + 'base': { 'mode': 'Qcow2ZoneModel' },
> + 'discriminator': 'mode',
> + 'data': { 'host-managed': 'Qcow2ZoneHostManaged' } }
> +
> ##
> # @BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow2:
> #
> @@ -5080,6 +5141,9 @@
> # @compression-type: The image cluster compression method
> # (default: zlib, since 5.1)
> #
> +# @zone: The zone device model modes. The default is that the device is
> +# not zoned. (since 8.2)
> +#
> # Since: 2.12
> ##
> { 'struct': 'BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow2',
> @@ -5096,7 +5160,8 @@
> '*preallocation': 'PreallocMode',
> '*lazy-refcounts': 'bool',
> '*refcount-bits': 'int',
> - '*compression-type':'Qcow2CompressionType' } }
> + '*compression-type':'Qcow2CompressionType',
> + '*zone': 'Qcow2ZoneCreateOptions' } }
>
> ##
> # @BlockdevCreateOptionsQed:
