this patch tries to optimize zero write requests
by automatically using bdrv_write_zeroes if it is
supported by the format.
This significantly speeds up file system initialization and
should speed zero write test used to test backend storage
performance.
I ran the following 2 tests on my internal SSD with a
50G QCOW2 container and on an attached iSCSI storage.
a) mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 /dev/vdX
QCOW2 [off] [on] [unmap]
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runtime: 14secs 1.1secs 1.1secs
filesize: 937M 18M 18M
iSCSI [off] [on] [unmap]
----
runtime: 9.3s 0.9s 0.9s
b) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vdX bs=1M oflag=direct
QCOW2 [off] [on] [unmap]
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runtime: 246secs 18secs 18secs
filesize: 51G 192K 192K
throughput: 203M/s 2.3G/s 2.3G/s
iSCSI* [off] [on] [unmap]
----
runtime: 8mins 45secs 33secs
throughput: 106M/s 1.2G/s 1.6G/s
allocated: 100% 100% 0%
* The storage was connected via an 1Gbit interface.
It seems to internally handle writing zeroes
via WRITESAME16 very fast.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The actual size of the image file may differ depending on the Linux
kernel currently running on the host. Filtering out this value makes
this test pass in such cases.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Block devices creates with -drive and drive_add should automatically
disappear if the guest device is unplugged. blockdev-add ones shouldn't.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Peter Lieven
Max Reitz
Kevin Wolf