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Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status |
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Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:16:22 +0100 |
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On 17/03/2017 12:11, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> like VMDK or QCOW2 shouldn't we trust the information from the l2 tables in
>>> the VMDK or QCOW2?
>> It provides additional information, for example it works better with
>> prealloc=metadata.
> Okay, understood. Can you imagine of a away to conditionally avoid this
> second callout? In my case we have an additional
> lseek for each cluster. For a 20GB file this are approx. 327k calls to lseek.
> And if the file has no preallocated metadata
> it will likely not improve anything. And even if the metadata is prealloced
> what is the allocation status of the clusters?
If the metadata is preallocated, cluster will (or should) show up as
zero, speeding up the copy.
Paolo
- [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/17
- Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/03/17
- Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/17
- Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/17
- Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Fam Zheng, 2017/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-block] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Fam Zheng, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Peter Lieven, 2017/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] callout to *file in bdrv_co_get_block_status, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/03/20