file-posix: add drop-cache=on|off option

Commit dd577a26ff ("block/file-posix:
implement bdrv_co_invalidate_cache() on Linux") introduced page cache
invalidation so that cache.direct=off live migration is safe on Linux.

The invalidation takes a significant amount of time when the file is
large and present in the page cache.  Normally this is not the case for
cross-host live migration but it can happen when migrating between QEMU
processes on the same host.

On same-host migration we don't need to invalidate pages for correctness
anyway, so an option to skip page cache invalidation is useful.  I
investigated optimizing invalidation and detecting same-host migration,
but both are hard to achieve so a user-visible option will suffice.

As a bonus this option means that the cache invalidation feature will
now be detectable by libvirt via QMP schema introspection.

Suggested-by: Neil Skrypuch <neil@tembosocial.com>
Tested-by: Neil Skrypuch <neil@tembosocial.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190307164941.3322-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Message-Id: <20190307164941.3322-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Stefan Hajnoczi 2019-03-07 16:49:41 +00:00
parent 3f3bbfc7ce
commit f357fcd890
2 changed files with 22 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ typedef struct BDRVRawState {
bool page_cache_inconsistent:1;
bool has_fallocate;
bool needs_alignment;
bool drop_cache;
bool check_cache_dropped;
PRManager *pr_mgr;
@ -162,6 +163,7 @@ typedef struct BDRVRawState {
typedef struct BDRVRawReopenState {
int fd;
int open_flags;
bool drop_cache;
bool check_cache_dropped;
} BDRVRawReopenState;
@ -422,6 +424,13 @@ static QemuOptsList raw_runtime_opts = {
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
.help = "id of persistent reservation manager object (default: none)",
},
#if defined(__linux__)
{
.name = "drop-cache",
.type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
.help = "invalidate page cache during live migration (default: on)",
},
#endif
{
.name = "x-check-cache-dropped",
.type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
@ -511,6 +520,7 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options,
}
}
s->drop_cache = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "drop-cache", true);
s->check_cache_dropped = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "x-check-cache-dropped",
false);
@ -869,6 +879,7 @@ static int raw_reopen_prepare(BDRVReopenState *state,
goto out;
}
rs->drop_cache = qemu_opt_get_bool_del(opts, "drop-cache", true);
rs->check_cache_dropped =
qemu_opt_get_bool_del(opts, "x-check-cache-dropped", false);
@ -946,6 +957,7 @@ static void raw_reopen_commit(BDRVReopenState *state)
BDRVRawState *s = state->bs->opaque;
Error *local_err = NULL;
s->drop_cache = rs->drop_cache;
s->check_cache_dropped = rs->check_cache_dropped;
s->open_flags = rs->open_flags;
@ -2531,6 +2543,10 @@ static void coroutine_fn raw_co_invalidate_cache(BlockDriverState *bs,
return;
}
if (!s->drop_cache) {
return;
}
if (s->open_flags & O_DIRECT) {
return; /* No host kernel page cache */
}