qemu-e2k/include/block/write-threshold.h

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block: add event when disk usage exceeds threshold Managing applications, like oVirt (http://www.ovirt.org), make extensive use of thin-provisioned disk images. To let the guest run smoothly and be not unnecessarily paused, oVirt sets a disk usage threshold (so called 'high water mark') based on the occupation of the device, and automatically extends the image once the threshold is reached or exceeded. In order to detect the crossing of the threshold, oVirt has no choice but aggressively polling the QEMU monitor using the query-blockstats command. This lead to unnecessary system load, and is made even worse under scale: deployments with hundreds of VMs are no longer rare. To fix this, this patch adds: * A new monitor command `block-set-write-threshold', to set a mark for a given block device. * A new event `BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD', to report if a block device usage exceeds the threshold. * A new `write_threshold' field into the `BlockDeviceInfo' structure, to report the configured threshold. This will allow the managing application to use smarter and more efficient monitoring, greatly reducing the need of polling. [Updated qemu-iotests 067 output to add the new 'write_threshold' property. --Stefan] [Changed g_assert_false() to !g_assert() to fix the build on older glib versions. --Kevin] Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 1421068273-692-1-git-send-email-fromani@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-01-12 14:11:13 +01:00
/*
* QEMU System Emulator block write threshold notification
*
* Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2014
*
* Authors:
* Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2 or later.
* See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
*/
block: add event when disk usage exceeds threshold Managing applications, like oVirt (http://www.ovirt.org), make extensive use of thin-provisioned disk images. To let the guest run smoothly and be not unnecessarily paused, oVirt sets a disk usage threshold (so called 'high water mark') based on the occupation of the device, and automatically extends the image once the threshold is reached or exceeded. In order to detect the crossing of the threshold, oVirt has no choice but aggressively polling the QEMU monitor using the query-blockstats command. This lead to unnecessary system load, and is made even worse under scale: deployments with hundreds of VMs are no longer rare. To fix this, this patch adds: * A new monitor command `block-set-write-threshold', to set a mark for a given block device. * A new event `BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD', to report if a block device usage exceeds the threshold. * A new `write_threshold' field into the `BlockDeviceInfo' structure, to report the configured threshold. This will allow the managing application to use smarter and more efficient monitoring, greatly reducing the need of polling. [Updated qemu-iotests 067 output to add the new 'write_threshold' property. --Stefan] [Changed g_assert_false() to !g_assert() to fix the build on older glib versions. --Kevin] Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 1421068273-692-1-git-send-email-fromani@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-01-12 14:11:13 +01:00
#ifndef BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD_H
#define BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD_H
/*
* bdrv_write_threshold_set:
*
* Set the write threshold for block devices, in bytes.
* Notify when a write exceeds the threshold, meaning the device
* is becoming full, so it can be transparently resized.
* To be used with thin-provisioned block devices.
*
* Use threshold_bytes == 0 to disable.
*/
void bdrv_write_threshold_set(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t threshold_bytes);
/*
* bdrv_write_threshold_get
*
* Get the configured write threshold, in bytes.
* Zero means no threshold configured.
*/
uint64_t bdrv_write_threshold_get(const BlockDriverState *bs);
/*
* bdrv_write_threshold_check_write
*
* Check whether the specified request exceeds the write threshold.
* If so, send a corresponding event and disable write threshold checking.
*/
void bdrv_write_threshold_check_write(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset,
int64_t bytes);
block: add event when disk usage exceeds threshold Managing applications, like oVirt (http://www.ovirt.org), make extensive use of thin-provisioned disk images. To let the guest run smoothly and be not unnecessarily paused, oVirt sets a disk usage threshold (so called 'high water mark') based on the occupation of the device, and automatically extends the image once the threshold is reached or exceeded. In order to detect the crossing of the threshold, oVirt has no choice but aggressively polling the QEMU monitor using the query-blockstats command. This lead to unnecessary system load, and is made even worse under scale: deployments with hundreds of VMs are no longer rare. To fix this, this patch adds: * A new monitor command `block-set-write-threshold', to set a mark for a given block device. * A new event `BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD', to report if a block device usage exceeds the threshold. * A new `write_threshold' field into the `BlockDeviceInfo' structure, to report the configured threshold. This will allow the managing application to use smarter and more efficient monitoring, greatly reducing the need of polling. [Updated qemu-iotests 067 output to add the new 'write_threshold' property. --Stefan] [Changed g_assert_false() to !g_assert() to fix the build on older glib versions. --Kevin] Signed-off-by: Francesco Romani <fromani@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 1421068273-692-1-git-send-email-fromani@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-01-12 14:11:13 +01:00
#endif