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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 26/27] block/parallels: optimize linear image ex
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 26/27] block/parallels: optimize linear image expansion |
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Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:18:48 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 01:28:20PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> Plain image expansion spends a lot of time to update image file size.
> This seriously affects the performance. The following simple test
> qemu_img create -f parallels -o cluster_size=64k ./1.hds 64G
> qemu_io -n -c "write -P 0x11 0 1024M" ./1.hds
> could be improved if the format driver will pre-allocate some space
> in the image file with a reasonable chunk.
>
> This patch preallocates 128 Mb using bdrv_write_zeroes, which should
> normally use fallocate() call inside. Fallback to older truncate()
> could be used as a fallback using image open options thanks to the
> previous patch.
>
> The benefit is around 15%.
qcow2 doesn't use bdrv_truncate() at all. It simply writes past the end
of bs->file to grow the file. Can you use this approach instead?
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