block: optimize zero writes with bdrv_write_zeroes

this patch tries to optimize zero write requests
by automatically using bdrv_write_zeroes if it is
supported by the format.

This significantly speeds up file system initialization and
should speed zero write test used to test backend storage
performance.

I ran the following 2 tests on my internal SSD with a
50G QCOW2 container and on an attached iSCSI storage.

a) mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 /dev/vdX

QCOW2         [off]     [on]     [unmap]
-----
runtime:       14secs    1.1secs  1.1secs
filesize:      937M      18M      18M

iSCSI         [off]     [on]     [unmap]
----
runtime:       9.3s      0.9s     0.9s

b) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vdX bs=1M oflag=direct

QCOW2         [off]     [on]     [unmap]
-----
runtime:       246secs   18secs   18secs
filesize:      51G       192K     192K
throughput:    203M/s    2.3G/s   2.3G/s

iSCSI*        [off]     [on]     [unmap]
----
runtime:       8mins     45secs   33secs
throughput:    106M/s    1.2G/s   1.6G/s
allocated:     100%      100%     0%

* The storage was connected via an 1Gbit interface.
  It seems to internally handle writing zeroes
  via WRITESAME16 very fast.

Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Lieven 2014-05-18 00:58:19 +02:00 committed by Kevin Wolf
parent 82a402e99f
commit 465bee1da8
9 changed files with 91 additions and 20 deletions

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@ -3289,6 +3289,15 @@ static int coroutine_fn bdrv_aligned_pwritev(BlockDriverState *bs,
ret = notifier_with_return_list_notify(&bs->before_write_notifiers, req);
if (!ret && bs->detect_zeroes != BLOCKDEV_DETECT_ZEROES_OPTIONS_OFF &&
!(flags & BDRV_REQ_ZERO_WRITE) && drv->bdrv_co_write_zeroes &&
qemu_iovec_is_zero(qiov)) {
flags |= BDRV_REQ_ZERO_WRITE;
if (bs->detect_zeroes == BLOCKDEV_DETECT_ZEROES_OPTIONS_UNMAP) {
flags |= BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP;
}
}
if (ret < 0) {
/* Do nothing, write notifier decided to fail this request */
} else if (flags & BDRV_REQ_ZERO_WRITE) {