[libvirt] [PATCH 3/4] snapshot: take advantage of new relations

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Oct 10 21:51:36 UTC 2011


On 10/09/2011 09:02 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> +    if (!(flags&  VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LIST_ROOTS)) {
>> +        virHashForEach(snapshots->objs, virDomainSnapshotObjListCount,&data);
>> +    } else if (data.flags) {
>> +        virDomainSnapshotObjPtr root = snapshots->first_root;
>> +        while (root) {
>> +            virDomainSnapshotObjListCount(root, root->def->name,&data);
>> +            root = root->sibling;
>> +        }
>
>    I was just wondering if a data structure with a meta-root snapshot
> and unifying first_root as a first_children on that meta-root wouldn't
> lead to simpler code overall.

Possibly.  In fact, ESX does just that.  Should I respin this patch 
series to factor that in on first commit, or do it as a followup commit?

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