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block: optimize zero writes with bdrv_write_zeroes

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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>
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Peter Lieven 2014-05-18 00:58:19 +02:00 • committed by Kevin Wolf
parent 82a402e99f
commit 465bee1da8
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@ -2032,6 +2032,8 @@ Each json-object contain the following:
- "iops_rd_max": read I/O operations max (json-int)
- "iops_wr_max": write I/O operations max (json-int)
- "iops_size": I/O size when limiting by iops (json-int)
- "detect_zeroes": detect and optimize zero writing (json-string)
- Possible values: "off", "on", "unmap"
- "image": the detail of the image, it is a json-object containing
the following:
- "filename": image file name (json-string)
@ -2108,6 +2110,7 @@ Example:
"iops_rd_max": 0,
"iops_wr_max": 0,
"iops_size": 0,
"detect_zeroes": "on",
"image":{
"filename":"disks/test.qcow2",
"format":"qcow2",