[libvirt] [PATCH] Compressed save image format for Qemu.

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 12:05:04 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:21:48PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 12:04 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:25:59PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> 
> > >  struct qemud_save_header {
> > >      char magic[sizeof(QEMUD_SAVE_MAGIC)-1];
> > >      int version;
> > >      int xml_len;
> > >      int was_running;
> > > -    int unused[16];
> > > +    char compressed;
> > > +    int unused[15];
> > >  };
> > 
> > Little mistake here - you removed sizeof(int) bytes, but only
> > added sizeof(char) replacement.
> 
> struct alignment will cause padding to be added between the fields.

Hmm, true, but I think it'll be a little non-obvious to people if
adding more fields in the future. Should add a char padding[3] to
make it clear.

Regards,
Daniel
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