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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Test creating raw image preallocation mode
#
# Copyright (C) 2017 Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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#
# creator
owner=nirsof@gmail.com
seq=`basename $0`
echo "QA output created by $seq"
status=1 # failure is the default!
_cleanup()
{
_cleanup_test_img
rm -f "$TEST_DIR/empty"
}
trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
# Some file systems sometimes allocate extra blocks independently of
# the file size. This function hides the resulting difference in the
# stat -c '%b' output.
# Parameter 1: Number of blocks an empty file occupies
block: posix: Always allocate the first block When creating an image with preallocation "off" or "falloc", the first block of the image is typically not allocated. When using Gluster storage backed by XFS filesystem, reading this block using direct I/O succeeds regardless of request length, fooling alignment detection. In this case we fallback to a safe value (4096) instead of the optimal value (512), which may lead to unneeded data copying when aligning requests. Allocating the first block avoids the fallback. Since we allocate the first block even with preallocation=off, we no longer create images with zero disk size: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 1g Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=1073741824 $ ls -lhs test.raw 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 1.0G Aug 16 23:48 test.raw And converting the image requires additional cluster: $ ./qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw required size: 458752 fully allocated size: 1074135040 When using format like vmdk with multiple files per image, we allocate one block per file: $ ./qemu-img create -f vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat test.vmdk 4g Formatting 'test.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=4294967296 compat6=off hwversion=undefined subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat $ ls -lhs test*.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f001.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f002.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 353 Aug 27 03:23 test.vmdk I did quick performance test for copying disks with qemu-img convert to new raw target image to Gluster storage with sector size of 512 bytes: for i in $(seq 10); do rm -f dst.raw sleep 10 time ./qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -t none -T none src.raw dst.raw done Here is a table comparing the total time spent: Type Before(s) After(s) Diff(%) --------------------------------------- real 530.028 469.123 -11.4 user 17.204 10.768 -37.4 sys 17.881 7.011 -60.7 We can see very clear improvement in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-2-nsoffer@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-08-27 03:05:27 +02:00
# Parameter 2: Minimal number of blocks in an image
# Parameter 3: Image size in bytes
_filter_blocks()
{
extra_blocks=$1
block: posix: Always allocate the first block When creating an image with preallocation "off" or "falloc", the first block of the image is typically not allocated. When using Gluster storage backed by XFS filesystem, reading this block using direct I/O succeeds regardless of request length, fooling alignment detection. In this case we fallback to a safe value (4096) instead of the optimal value (512), which may lead to unneeded data copying when aligning requests. Allocating the first block avoids the fallback. Since we allocate the first block even with preallocation=off, we no longer create images with zero disk size: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 1g Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=1073741824 $ ls -lhs test.raw 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 1.0G Aug 16 23:48 test.raw And converting the image requires additional cluster: $ ./qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw required size: 458752 fully allocated size: 1074135040 When using format like vmdk with multiple files per image, we allocate one block per file: $ ./qemu-img create -f vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat test.vmdk 4g Formatting 'test.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=4294967296 compat6=off hwversion=undefined subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat $ ls -lhs test*.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f001.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f002.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 353 Aug 27 03:23 test.vmdk I did quick performance test for copying disks with qemu-img convert to new raw target image to Gluster storage with sector size of 512 bytes: for i in $(seq 10); do rm -f dst.raw sleep 10 time ./qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -t none -T none src.raw dst.raw done Here is a table comparing the total time spent: Type Before(s) After(s) Diff(%) --------------------------------------- real 530.028 469.123 -11.4 user 17.204 10.768 -37.4 sys 17.881 7.011 -60.7 We can see very clear improvement in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-2-nsoffer@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-08-27 03:05:27 +02:00
min_blocks=$2
img_size=$3
block: posix: Always allocate the first block When creating an image with preallocation "off" or "falloc", the first block of the image is typically not allocated. When using Gluster storage backed by XFS filesystem, reading this block using direct I/O succeeds regardless of request length, fooling alignment detection. In this case we fallback to a safe value (4096) instead of the optimal value (512), which may lead to unneeded data copying when aligning requests. Allocating the first block avoids the fallback. Since we allocate the first block even with preallocation=off, we no longer create images with zero disk size: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 1g Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=1073741824 $ ls -lhs test.raw 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 1.0G Aug 16 23:48 test.raw And converting the image requires additional cluster: $ ./qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw required size: 458752 fully allocated size: 1074135040 When using format like vmdk with multiple files per image, we allocate one block per file: $ ./qemu-img create -f vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat test.vmdk 4g Formatting 'test.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=4294967296 compat6=off hwversion=undefined subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat $ ls -lhs test*.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f001.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f002.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 353 Aug 27 03:23 test.vmdk I did quick performance test for copying disks with qemu-img convert to new raw target image to Gluster storage with sector size of 512 bytes: for i in $(seq 10); do rm -f dst.raw sleep 10 time ./qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -t none -T none src.raw dst.raw done Here is a table comparing the total time spent: Type Before(s) After(s) Diff(%) --------------------------------------- real 530.028 469.123 -11.4 user 17.204 10.768 -37.4 sys 17.881 7.011 -60.7 We can see very clear improvement in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-2-nsoffer@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-08-27 03:05:27 +02:00
sed -e "s/blocks=$min_blocks\\(\$\\|[^0-9]\\)/min allocation/" \
-e "s/blocks=$((extra_blocks + img_size / 512))\\(\$\\|[^0-9]\\)/max allocation/"
}
# Resize image using block_resize.
# Parameter 1: image path
# Parameter 2: new size
_block_resize()
{
local path=$1
local size=$2
$QEMU -qmp stdio -nographic -nodefaults \
-blockdev file,node-name=file,filename=$path,cache.direct=on \
<<EOF
{'execute': 'qmp_capabilities'}
{'execute': 'block_resize', 'arguments': {'node-name': 'file', 'size': $size}}
{'execute': 'quit'}
EOF
}
# get standard environment, filters and checks
. ./common.rc
. ./common.filter
_supported_fmt raw
_supported_proto file
_supported_os Linux
_default_cache_mode none
_supported_cache_modes none directsync
size=$((1 * 1024 * 1024))
touch "$TEST_DIR/empty"
extra_blocks=$(stat -c '%b' "$TEST_DIR/empty")
block: posix: Always allocate the first block When creating an image with preallocation "off" or "falloc", the first block of the image is typically not allocated. When using Gluster storage backed by XFS filesystem, reading this block using direct I/O succeeds regardless of request length, fooling alignment detection. In this case we fallback to a safe value (4096) instead of the optimal value (512), which may lead to unneeded data copying when aligning requests. Allocating the first block avoids the fallback. Since we allocate the first block even with preallocation=off, we no longer create images with zero disk size: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 1g Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=1073741824 $ ls -lhs test.raw 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 1.0G Aug 16 23:48 test.raw And converting the image requires additional cluster: $ ./qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw required size: 458752 fully allocated size: 1074135040 When using format like vmdk with multiple files per image, we allocate one block per file: $ ./qemu-img create -f vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat test.vmdk 4g Formatting 'test.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=4294967296 compat6=off hwversion=undefined subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat $ ls -lhs test*.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f001.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f002.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 353 Aug 27 03:23 test.vmdk I did quick performance test for copying disks with qemu-img convert to new raw target image to Gluster storage with sector size of 512 bytes: for i in $(seq 10); do rm -f dst.raw sleep 10 time ./qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -t none -T none src.raw dst.raw done Here is a table comparing the total time spent: Type Before(s) After(s) Diff(%) --------------------------------------- real 530.028 469.123 -11.4 user 17.204 10.768 -37.4 sys 17.881 7.011 -60.7 We can see very clear improvement in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-2-nsoffer@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-08-27 03:05:27 +02:00
# We always write the first byte; check how many blocks this filesystem
# allocates to match empty image alloation.
printf "\0" > "$TEST_DIR/empty"
min_blocks=$(stat -c '%b' "$TEST_DIR/empty")
echo
echo "== creating image with default preallocation =="
file-posix: Mitigate file fragmentation with extent size hints Especially when O_DIRECT is used with image files so that the page cache indirection can't cause a merge of allocating requests, the file will fragment on the file system layer, with a potentially very small fragment size (this depends on the requests the guest sent). On Linux, fragmentation can be reduced by setting an extent size hint when creating the file (at least on XFS, it can't be set any more after the first extent has been allocated), basically giving raw files a "cluster size" for allocation. This adds a create option to set the extent size hint, and changes the default from not setting a hint to setting it to 1 MB. The main reason why qcow2 defaults to smaller cluster sizes is that COW becomes more expensive, which is not an issue with raw files, so we can choose a larger size. The tradeoff here is only potentially wasted disk space. For qcow2 (or other image formats) over file-posix, the advantage should even be greater because they grow sequentially without leaving holes, so there won't be wasted space. Setting even larger extent size hints for such images may make sense. This can be done with the new option, but let's keep the default conservative for now. The effect is very visible with a test that intentionally creates a badly fragmented file with qemu-img bench (the time difference while creating the file is already remarkable) and then looks at the number of extents and the time a simple "qemu-img map" takes. Without an extent size hint: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw -o extent_size_hint=0 ~/tmp/test.raw 10G Formatting '/home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw', fmt=raw size=10737418240 extent_size_hint=0 $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 0 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 0, step size 8192) Run completed in 25.848 seconds. $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 4096 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 4096, step size 8192) Run completed in 19.616 seconds. $ filefrag ~/tmp/test.raw /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw: 2000000 extents found $ time ./qemu-img map ~/tmp/test.raw Offset Length Mapped to File 0 0x1e8480000 0 /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw real 0m1,279s user 0m0,043s sys 0m1,226s With the new default extent size hint of 1 MB: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw -o extent_size_hint=1M ~/tmp/test.raw 10G Formatting '/home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw', fmt=raw size=10737418240 extent_size_hint=1048576 $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 0 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 0, step size 8192) Run completed in 11.833 seconds. $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 4096 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 4096, step size 8192) Run completed in 10.155 seconds. $ filefrag ~/tmp/test.raw /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw: 178 extents found $ time ./qemu-img map ~/tmp/test.raw Offset Length Mapped to File 0 0x1e8480000 0 /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw real 0m0,061s user 0m0,040s sys 0m0,014s Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200707142329.48303-1-kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2020-07-07 16:23:29 +02:00
_make_test_img -o extent_size_hint=0 $size | _filter_imgfmt
block: posix: Always allocate the first block When creating an image with preallocation "off" or "falloc", the first block of the image is typically not allocated. When using Gluster storage backed by XFS filesystem, reading this block using direct I/O succeeds regardless of request length, fooling alignment detection. In this case we fallback to a safe value (4096) instead of the optimal value (512), which may lead to unneeded data copying when aligning requests. Allocating the first block avoids the fallback. Since we allocate the first block even with preallocation=off, we no longer create images with zero disk size: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 1g Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=1073741824 $ ls -lhs test.raw 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 1.0G Aug 16 23:48 test.raw And converting the image requires additional cluster: $ ./qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw required size: 458752 fully allocated size: 1074135040 When using format like vmdk with multiple files per image, we allocate one block per file: $ ./qemu-img create -f vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat test.vmdk 4g Formatting 'test.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=4294967296 compat6=off hwversion=undefined subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat $ ls -lhs test*.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f001.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f002.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 353 Aug 27 03:23 test.vmdk I did quick performance test for copying disks with qemu-img convert to new raw target image to Gluster storage with sector size of 512 bytes: for i in $(seq 10); do rm -f dst.raw sleep 10 time ./qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -t none -T none src.raw dst.raw done Here is a table comparing the total time spent: Type Before(s) After(s) Diff(%) --------------------------------------- real 530.028 469.123 -11.4 user 17.204 10.768 -37.4 sys 17.881 7.011 -60.7 We can see very clear improvement in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-2-nsoffer@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-08-27 03:05:27 +02:00
stat -c "size=%s, blocks=%b" $TEST_IMG | _filter_blocks $extra_blocks $min_blocks $size
for mode in off full falloc; do
echo
echo "== creating image with preallocation $mode =="
file-posix: Mitigate file fragmentation with extent size hints Especially when O_DIRECT is used with image files so that the page cache indirection can't cause a merge of allocating requests, the file will fragment on the file system layer, with a potentially very small fragment size (this depends on the requests the guest sent). On Linux, fragmentation can be reduced by setting an extent size hint when creating the file (at least on XFS, it can't be set any more after the first extent has been allocated), basically giving raw files a "cluster size" for allocation. This adds a create option to set the extent size hint, and changes the default from not setting a hint to setting it to 1 MB. The main reason why qcow2 defaults to smaller cluster sizes is that COW becomes more expensive, which is not an issue with raw files, so we can choose a larger size. The tradeoff here is only potentially wasted disk space. For qcow2 (or other image formats) over file-posix, the advantage should even be greater because they grow sequentially without leaving holes, so there won't be wasted space. Setting even larger extent size hints for such images may make sense. This can be done with the new option, but let's keep the default conservative for now. The effect is very visible with a test that intentionally creates a badly fragmented file with qemu-img bench (the time difference while creating the file is already remarkable) and then looks at the number of extents and the time a simple "qemu-img map" takes. Without an extent size hint: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw -o extent_size_hint=0 ~/tmp/test.raw 10G Formatting '/home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw', fmt=raw size=10737418240 extent_size_hint=0 $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 0 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 0, step size 8192) Run completed in 25.848 seconds. $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 4096 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 4096, step size 8192) Run completed in 19.616 seconds. $ filefrag ~/tmp/test.raw /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw: 2000000 extents found $ time ./qemu-img map ~/tmp/test.raw Offset Length Mapped to File 0 0x1e8480000 0 /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw real 0m1,279s user 0m0,043s sys 0m1,226s With the new default extent size hint of 1 MB: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw -o extent_size_hint=1M ~/tmp/test.raw 10G Formatting '/home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw', fmt=raw size=10737418240 extent_size_hint=1048576 $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 0 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 0, step size 8192) Run completed in 11.833 seconds. $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 4096 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 4096, step size 8192) Run completed in 10.155 seconds. $ filefrag ~/tmp/test.raw /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw: 178 extents found $ time ./qemu-img map ~/tmp/test.raw Offset Length Mapped to File 0 0x1e8480000 0 /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw real 0m0,061s user 0m0,040s sys 0m0,014s Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200707142329.48303-1-kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2020-07-07 16:23:29 +02:00
_make_test_img -o preallocation=$mode,extent_size_hint=0 $size | _filter_imgfmt
block: posix: Always allocate the first block When creating an image with preallocation "off" or "falloc", the first block of the image is typically not allocated. When using Gluster storage backed by XFS filesystem, reading this block using direct I/O succeeds regardless of request length, fooling alignment detection. In this case we fallback to a safe value (4096) instead of the optimal value (512), which may lead to unneeded data copying when aligning requests. Allocating the first block avoids the fallback. Since we allocate the first block even with preallocation=off, we no longer create images with zero disk size: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw test.raw 1g Formatting 'test.raw', fmt=raw size=1073741824 $ ls -lhs test.raw 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 1.0G Aug 16 23:48 test.raw And converting the image requires additional cluster: $ ./qemu-img measure -f raw -O qcow2 test.raw required size: 458752 fully allocated size: 1074135040 When using format like vmdk with multiple files per image, we allocate one block per file: $ ./qemu-img create -f vmdk -o subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat test.vmdk 4g Formatting 'test.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=4294967296 compat6=off hwversion=undefined subformat=twoGbMaxExtentFlat $ ls -lhs test*.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f001.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 2.0G Aug 27 03:23 test-f002.vmdk 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 nsoffer nsoffer 353 Aug 27 03:23 test.vmdk I did quick performance test for copying disks with qemu-img convert to new raw target image to Gluster storage with sector size of 512 bytes: for i in $(seq 10); do rm -f dst.raw sleep 10 time ./qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -t none -T none src.raw dst.raw done Here is a table comparing the total time spent: Type Before(s) After(s) Diff(%) --------------------------------------- real 530.028 469.123 -11.4 user 17.204 10.768 -37.4 sys 17.881 7.011 -60.7 We can see very clear improvement in CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-2-nsoffer@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-08-27 03:05:27 +02:00
stat -c "size=%s, blocks=%b" $TEST_IMG | _filter_blocks $extra_blocks $min_blocks $size
done
for new_size in 4096 1048576; do
echo
echo "== resize empty image with block_resize =="
file-posix: Mitigate file fragmentation with extent size hints Especially when O_DIRECT is used with image files so that the page cache indirection can't cause a merge of allocating requests, the file will fragment on the file system layer, with a potentially very small fragment size (this depends on the requests the guest sent). On Linux, fragmentation can be reduced by setting an extent size hint when creating the file (at least on XFS, it can't be set any more after the first extent has been allocated), basically giving raw files a "cluster size" for allocation. This adds a create option to set the extent size hint, and changes the default from not setting a hint to setting it to 1 MB. The main reason why qcow2 defaults to smaller cluster sizes is that COW becomes more expensive, which is not an issue with raw files, so we can choose a larger size. The tradeoff here is only potentially wasted disk space. For qcow2 (or other image formats) over file-posix, the advantage should even be greater because they grow sequentially without leaving holes, so there won't be wasted space. Setting even larger extent size hints for such images may make sense. This can be done with the new option, but let's keep the default conservative for now. The effect is very visible with a test that intentionally creates a badly fragmented file with qemu-img bench (the time difference while creating the file is already remarkable) and then looks at the number of extents and the time a simple "qemu-img map" takes. Without an extent size hint: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw -o extent_size_hint=0 ~/tmp/test.raw 10G Formatting '/home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw', fmt=raw size=10737418240 extent_size_hint=0 $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 0 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 0, step size 8192) Run completed in 25.848 seconds. $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 4096 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 4096, step size 8192) Run completed in 19.616 seconds. $ filefrag ~/tmp/test.raw /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw: 2000000 extents found $ time ./qemu-img map ~/tmp/test.raw Offset Length Mapped to File 0 0x1e8480000 0 /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw real 0m1,279s user 0m0,043s sys 0m1,226s With the new default extent size hint of 1 MB: $ ./qemu-img create -f raw -o extent_size_hint=1M ~/tmp/test.raw 10G Formatting '/home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw', fmt=raw size=10737418240 extent_size_hint=1048576 $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 0 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 0, step size 8192) Run completed in 11.833 seconds. $ ./qemu-img bench -f raw -t none -n -w ~/tmp/test.raw -c 1000000 -S 8192 -o 4096 Sending 1000000 write requests, 4096 bytes each, 64 in parallel (starting at offset 4096, step size 8192) Run completed in 10.155 seconds. $ filefrag ~/tmp/test.raw /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw: 178 extents found $ time ./qemu-img map ~/tmp/test.raw Offset Length Mapped to File 0 0x1e8480000 0 /home/kwolf/tmp/test.raw real 0m0,061s user 0m0,040s sys 0m0,014s Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200707142329.48303-1-kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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_make_test_img -o extent_size_hint=0 0 | _filter_imgfmt
_block_resize $TEST_IMG $new_size >/dev/null
stat -c "size=%s, blocks=%b" $TEST_IMG | _filter_blocks $extra_blocks $min_blocks $new_size
done
# success, all done
echo "*** done"
rm -f $seq.full
status=0