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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] qcow2: cache flush fixes and performance improv
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] qcow2: cache flush fixes and performance improvements |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:45:00 +0100 |
Users have reported that qcow2 internal snapshot creation is slow. I filed a
bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1126369.
This patch series reduces the time for qcow2 internal snapshot creation
significantly, from more than 3 minutes to under 1 second.
In the process of removing unnecessary cache flushes, I also stumbled upon
instances of bdrv_flush(bs->file) where we really want to flush metadata
updates. Since qcow2 caches metadata this actually does not write out the
metadata updates to disk! The fix is either bdrv_flush(bs) or a more specific
cache flush (e.g. refcount block cache).
This series passes qemu-iotests.
Stefan Hajnoczi (6):
qcow2: flush refcount cache correctly in alloc_refcount_block()
qcow2: flush refcount cache correctly in qcow2_write_snapshots()
qcow2: flush caches in qcow2_alloc_bytes()
qcow2: flush in qcow2_update_snapshot_refcount()
qcow2: drop flush in update_cluster_refcount()
qcow2: drop unnecessary flush in qcow2_update_snapshot_refcount()
block/qcow2-refcount.c | 12 +++---------
block/qcow2-snapshot.c | 7 +------
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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1.8.1.2
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] qcow2: cache flush fixes and performance improvements,
Stefan Hajnoczi <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] qcow2: flush refcount cache correctly in alloc_refcount_block(), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/02/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] qcow2: flush in qcow2_update_snapshot_refcount(), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/02/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] qcow2: flush refcount cache correctly in qcow2_write_snapshots(), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/02/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] qcow2: drop flush in update_cluster_refcount(), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/02/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] qcow2: flush caches in qcow2_alloc_bytes(), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/02/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] qcow2: drop unnecessary flush in qcow2_update_snapshot_refcount(), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/02/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] qcow2: cache flush fixes and performance improvements, Eric Blake, 2013/02/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] qcow2: cache flush fixes and performance improvements, Kevin Wolf, 2013/02/20