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Eric Blake authored
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), alt...
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