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Drop the SET designation, so that we can reuse these states for OPT_LIST_META_CONTEXT in the next patch. --- generator/Makefile.am | 4 +-- generator/state_machine.ml | 6 ++--- ...t.c => states-newstyle-opt-meta-context.c} | 26 +++++++++---------- .../states-newstyle-opt-structured-reply.c | 4 +-- generator/states-newstyle.c

I'm posting this now, as I'm at the end of a workday and I got things working for manual experimentation. Still to do: - write interop tests for qemu-nbd and nbdkit (including my proposed patch addition of qemu-nbd -A to show qemu:allocation-depth) - figure out if we can make 'nbdinfo --map' use the new API to automatically select all contexts advertised by the server Eric Blake

Right now, we require the user to supply potential metacontext names in advance, without knowing what the server actually supports until after the connection or nbd_opt_info call is complete. But the NBD protocol also supports a client being able to query what contexts a server supports, including where a client asks with a prefix and the server replies back with all answers that match the

In v2: ack'ed preliminary patches have been pushed, and I've added a lot of testsuite coverage as well as putting the new API to use in nbdinfo. Eric Blake (2): api: Add nbd_opt_list_meta_context info: List available meta-contexts lib/internal.h | 1 + generator/API.ml | 84 ++++++++-

I'm still playing with ideas on how to split rstate from wstate (so that we can send a request without waiting for POLLIN to complete a pending reply), but this is some preliminary refactoring I found useful. I also fixed a couple of bugs while in the area (already pushed). There's a question of whether we want nbd_handle to be nearly 5k, or if we should instead keep it small and add one

This isn't quite finished because not all of the tests or examples have been updated, but it demonstrates an idea: Should we forget about the concept of having multiple connections managed under a single handle? In this patch there is a single ‘struct nbd_handle *’ which manages a single state machine and connection (and therefore no nbd_connection). To connect to a multi-conn server you must

This adds coalescing of adjacent extents of the same type, as mentioned by Eric Blake in the commit message here: https://github.com/libguestfs/libnbd/commit/46072f6611f80245846a445766da071e457b00cd The patch series is rather long because it detours through adding the <vector.h> library from nbdkit into libnbd and replacing ad hoc uses of realloc, char ** etc in various places. Rich.