Depending on the changed options and the image format,
bdrv_amend_options() may take a significant amount of time. In these
cases, a way to be informed about the operation's status is desirable.
Since the operation is rather complex and may fundamentally change the
image, implementing it as AIO or a coroutine does not seem feasible. On
the other hand, implementing it as a block job would be significantly
more difficult than a simple callback and would not add benefits other
than progress report to the amending operation, because it should not
actually be run as a block job at all.
A callback may not be very pretty, but it's very easy to implement and
perfectly fits its purpose here.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit.canet@nodalink.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414404776-4919-2-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Max Reitz
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