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Nir Soffer 7e3dc2ba9a iotests: Test allocate_first_block() with O_DIRECT
Using block_resize we can test allocate_first_block() with file
descriptor opened with O_DIRECT, ensuring that it works for any size
larger than 4096 bytes.

Testing smaller sizes is tricky as the result depends on the filesystem
used for testing. For example on NFS any size will work since O_DIRECT
does not require any alignment.

Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190827010528.8818-3-nsoffer@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-09-03 14:55:35 +02:00
Nir Soffer 3a20013fbb 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>
2019-09-03 14:55:35 +02:00
Max Reitz a3bd71b577 iotests: Filter 175's allocation information
It is possible for an empty file to take up blocks on a filesystem, for
example:

$ qemu-img create -f raw test.img 1G
Formatting 'test.img', fmt=raw size=1073741824
$ mkfs.ext4 -I 128 -q test.img
$ mkdir test-mount
$ sudo mount -o loop test.img test-mount
$ sudo touch test-mount/test-file
$ stat -c 'blocks=%b' test-mount/test-file
blocks=8

These extra blocks (one cluster) are apparently used for metadata,
because they are always there, on top of blocks used for data:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=test-mount/test-file bs=1M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.00135339 s, 775 MB/s
$ stat -c 'blocks=%b' test-mount/test-file
blocks=2056

Make iotest 175 take this into account.

Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190516144319.12570-1-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2019-06-14 14:16:57 +02:00
Nir Soffer 6f993f3fca qemu-img: Add tests for raw image preallocation
Add tests for creating raw image with and without the preallocation
option.

Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-02-24 16:09:22 +01:00