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qcow2: implement lazy refcounts

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Lazy refcounts is a performance optimization for qcow2 that postpones
refcount metadata updates and instead marks the image dirty.  In the
case of crash or power failure the image will be left in a dirty state
and repaired next time it is opened.

Reducing metadata I/O is important for cache=writethrough and
cache=directsync because these modes guarantee that data is on disk
after each write (hence we cannot take advantage of caching updates in
RAM).  Refcount metadata is not needed for guest->file block address
translation and therefore does not need to be on-disk at the time of
write completion - this is the motivation behind the lazy refcount
optimization.

The lazy refcount optimization must be enabled at image creation time:

  qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts=on a.qcow2 10G
  qemu-system-x86_64 -drive if=virtio,file=a.qcow2,cache=writethrough

Update qemu-iotests 031 and 036 since the extension header size changes
when we add feature bit table entries.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Stefan Hajnoczi 2012-07-27 09:05:22 +01:00 • committed by Kevin Wolf
parent 91cf8a35e7
commit bfe8043e92
6 changed files with 107 additions and 24 deletions
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@ -31,8 +31,9 @@
#include "qemu-timer.h"
#include "qapi-types.h"
#define BLOCK_FLAG_ENCRYPT 1
#define BLOCK_FLAG_COMPAT6 4
#define BLOCK_FLAG_ENCRYPT 1
#define BLOCK_FLAG_COMPAT6 4
#define BLOCK_FLAG_LAZY_REFCOUNTS 8
#define BLOCK_IO_LIMIT_READ 0
#define BLOCK_IO_LIMIT_WRITE 1
@ -41,16 +42,17 @@
#define BLOCK_IO_SLICE_TIME 100000000
#define NANOSECONDS_PER_SECOND 1000000000.0
#define BLOCK_OPT_SIZE "size"
#define BLOCK_OPT_ENCRYPT "encryption"
#define BLOCK_OPT_COMPAT6 "compat6"
#define BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FILE "backing_file"
#define BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FMT "backing_fmt"
#define BLOCK_OPT_CLUSTER_SIZE "cluster_size"
#define BLOCK_OPT_TABLE_SIZE "table_size"
#define BLOCK_OPT_PREALLOC "preallocation"
#define BLOCK_OPT_SUBFMT "subformat"
#define BLOCK_OPT_COMPAT_LEVEL "compat"
#define BLOCK_OPT_SIZE "size"
#define BLOCK_OPT_ENCRYPT "encryption"
#define BLOCK_OPT_COMPAT6 "compat6"
#define BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FILE "backing_file"
#define BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FMT "backing_fmt"
#define BLOCK_OPT_CLUSTER_SIZE "cluster_size"
#define BLOCK_OPT_TABLE_SIZE "table_size"
#define BLOCK_OPT_PREALLOC "preallocation"
#define BLOCK_OPT_SUBFMT "subformat"
#define BLOCK_OPT_COMPAT_LEVEL "compat"
#define BLOCK_OPT_LAZY_REFCOUNTS "lazy_refcounts"
typedef struct BdrvTrackedRequest BdrvTrackedRequest;