Re: [question] Partial sector issue while discard in qcow2 image

[Lin Ma]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the explanation!

Lin

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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 7:06 PM
To: Lin Ma <LMa@suse.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; pbonzini@redhat.com <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [question] Partial sector issue while discard in qcow2 image

 

Am 02.06.2020 um 09:45 hat Lin Ma geschrieben:
> Hi all,
>
> During  woring to add GET LBA STATUS support in qemu scsi emulation
> layer, I encountered an unmap issue with qcow2 image, It's likely
> about how to unmap partial clusters. e.g.:
>
> With these default values:
> * the default value of s->qdev.blocksize: 512
> * the default value of s->cluster_size of qcow2 image: 65536
>
> Running 'sg_unmap -l 1024 -n 32 /dev/sda' hits the condition
> 'if (!QEMU_IS_ALIGNED(offset | bytes, s->cluster_size))' in the
> function qcow2_co_pdiscard, Then it won't perform
> qcow2_cluster_discard(), So the corresponding clusters won't be
> discard in this situation, Correct?

Yes, this is correct. Discard is just a hint, so doing nothing is a
perfectly valid implementation. In the case of qcow2, only full clusters
are discarded.

> Of cause, with the default blocksize and cluster_size, The below
> examples won't hit the condition 'if (!QEMU_IS_ALIGNED...'.
> sg_unmap -l 1024 -n 128 /dev/sda
> or
> sg_unmap -l 256 -n 128 /dev/sda

Yes, and when discarding whole block devices (e.g. while creating a new
filesystem on them) or large files, you'll probably get this case for
most parts.

Kevin