qemu/qapi
Pavel Butsykin 13b9414b57 drive-backup: added support for data compression
The idea is simple - backup is "written-once" data. It is written block
by block and it is large enough. It would be nice to save storage
space and compress it.

The patch adds a flag to the qmp/hmp drive-backup command which enables
block compression. Compression should be implemented in the format driver
to enable this feature.

There are some limitations of the format driver to allow compressed writes.
We can write data only once. Though for backup this is perfectly fine.
These limitations are maintained by the driver and the error will be
reported if we are doing something wrong.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2016-09-05 19:06:48 +02:00
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Makefile.objs qapi: Add new clone visitor 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
block-core.json drive-backup: added support for data compression 2016-09-05 19:06:48 +02:00
block.json nbd-server: Allow node name for nbd-server-add 2016-09-05 19:06:47 +02:00
common.json kvm: add support for -machine kernel_irqchip=split 2015-12-17 17:15:40 +01:00
crypto.json crypto: add support for querying parameters for block encryption 2016-07-26 17:46:37 +02:00
event.json qmp event: Refactor QUORUM_REPORT_BAD 2016-03-14 16:46:43 +01:00
introspect.json qapi: Use anonymous bases in QMP flat unions 2016-03-18 10:29:26 +01:00
opts-visitor.c opts-visitor: Favor new visit_free() function 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
qapi-clone-visitor.c qapi: Add new clone visitor 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
qapi-dealloc-visitor.c qapi: Add new visit_free() function 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
qapi-util.c include/qemu/osdep.h: Don't include qapi/error.h 2016-03-22 22:20:15 +01:00
qapi-visit-core.c qapi: Add new clone visitor 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
qmp-dispatch.c qapi: Improve use of qmp/types.h 2016-07-06 10:52:03 +02:00
qmp-event.c qapi: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
qmp-input-visitor.c qapi: change QmpInputVisitor to QSLIST 2016-07-19 13:21:08 +02:00
qmp-output-visitor.c qapi: change QmpOutputVisitor to QSLIST 2016-07-19 13:21:08 +02:00
qmp-registry.c all: Remove unnecessary glib.h includes 2016-06-07 18:19:24 +03:00
rocker.json qmp/hmp: add rocker device support 2015-06-12 13:42:17 +01:00
string-input-visitor.c string-input-visitor: Favor new visit_free() function 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
string-output-visitor.c qapi: Add new visit_complete() function 2016-07-06 10:52:04 +02:00
trace.json trace: Add QAPI/QMP interfaces to query and control per-vCPU tracing state 2016-07-18 18:23:12 +01:00