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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 0/6] qcow2, raw: add preallocation=full and


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 0/6] qcow2, raw: add preallocation=full and preallocation=falloc
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:44:26 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:35:15AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:54:29PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 28.07.2014 um 10:48 hat Hu Tao geschrieben:
> > > ping...
> > > 
> > > All the 6 patches have reviewed-by now.
> > 
> > Looks mostly good to me, I have only a few minor comments that wouldn't
> > block inclusion but could be addressed in follow-up patches.
> > 
> > However, you have a dependency on a patch series from Max (you use
> > minimal_blob_size()), which hasn't been reviewed and merged yet, so your
> > series is blocked on that.
> > 
> > If you want to get your series merged quicker, you could replace this
> > with a rough estimate that excludes the clusters used by refcount table
> > and blocks. If full preallocation isn't really full, but only
> > preallocation of 99.9%, that's probably good enough in practice.
> 
> How about my calculation in v10?
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg02844.html
> 
> It doesn't depend on minimal_blob_size(). In most cases the calculated
> size is the same as the size before this patch. I have no test results
> on hand, but if you need I can do it.

Kevin is on vacation this week.

I think the previous calculation could work.

Stefan

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