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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qcow2 journalling draft


From: Benoît Canet
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qcow2 journalling draft
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:08:00 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

> Then you get very quickly alternating sequences of "L2 depends on
> refcount update" (for allocation) and "refcount update depends on L2
> update" (for freeing), which means that Qcow2Cache starts flushing all
> the time without accumulating many requests. These are cases that would
> benefit as well from the atomicity of journal transactions.

True, Deduplication can hit this case on delete if I remember correctly
and it slow down everything.

Best regards

Benoît



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