Instead stalling the VCPU while serving a cache flush try to do it
asynchronously. Use our good old helper thread pool to issue an
asynchronous fdatasync for raw-posix. Note that while Linux AIO
implements a fdatasync operation it is not useful for us because
it isn't actually implement in asynchronous fashion.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
If we are flushing the caches for our image files we only care about the
data (including the metadata required for accessing it) but not things
like timestamp updates. So try to use fdatasync instead of fsync to
implement the flush operations.
Unfortunately many operating systems still do not support fdatasync,
so we add a qemu_fdatasync wrapper that uses fdatasync if available
as per the _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO feature macro or fsync otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When two AIO requests write to the same cluster, and this cluster is
unallocated, currently both requests allocate a new cluster and the second one
merges the first one when it is completed. This means an cluster allocation, a
read and a cluster deallocation which cause some overhead. If we simply let the
second request wait until the first one is done, we improve overall performance
with AIO requests (specifially, qcow2/virtio combinations).
This patch maintains a list of in-flight requests that have allocated new
clusters. A second request touching the same cluster is limited so that it
either doesn't touch the allocation of the first request (so it can have a
non-overlapping allocation) or it waits for the first request to complete.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The wrong version of the preallocation patch has been applied, so this is the
remaining diff.
We can't use truncate to grow the image file to the right size because we don't
know if metadata has been written after the last data cluster. In this case
truncate would shrink the file and destroy its metadata. Write a zero sector at
the end of the virtual disk instead to ensure that the file is big enough.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The company which made Virtual PC was Connectix.
They use the magic string "conectix" in their disk images.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch fixes linker errors when building QEMU without Linux AIO support.
It is based on suggestions from malc and Kevin Wolf.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now that do have a nicer interface to work against we can add Linux native
AIO support. It's an extremly thing layer just setting up an iocb for
the io_submit system call in the submission path, and registering an
eventfd with the qemu poll handler to do complete the iocbs directly
from there.
This started out based on Anthony's earlier AIO patch, but after
estimated 42,000 rewrites and just as many build system changes
there's not much left of it.
To enable native kernel aio use the aio=native sub-command on the
drive command line. I have also added an option to qemu-io to
test the aio support without needing a guest.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Currently the raw-posix.c code contains a lot of knowledge about the
asynchronous I/O scheme that is mostly implemented in posix-aio-compat.c.
All this code does not really belong here and is getting a bit in the
way of implementing native AIO on Linux.
So instead move all the guts of the AIO implementation into
posix-aio-compat.c (which might need a better name, btw).
There's now a very small interface between the AIO providers and raw-posix.c:
- an init routine is called from raw_open_common to return an AIO context
for this drive. An AIO implementation may either re-use one context
for all drives, or use a different one for each as the Linux native
AIO support will do.
- an submit routine is called from the aio_reav/writev methods to submit
an AIO request
There are no indirect calls involved in this interface as we need to
decide which one to call manually. We will only call the Linux AIO native
init function if we were requested to by vl.c, and we will only call
the native submit function if we are asked to and the request is properly
aligned. That's also the reason why the alignment check actually does
the inverse move and now goes into raw-posix.c.
The old posix-aio-compat.h headers is removed now that most of it's
content is private to posix-aio-compat.c, and instead we add a new
block/raw-posix-aio.h headers is created containing only the tiny interface
between raw-posix.c and the AIO implementation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This introduces a qemu-img create option for qcow2 which allows the metadata to
be preallocated, i.e. clusters are reserved in the refcount table and L1/L2
tables, but no data is written to them. Metadata is quite small, so this
happens in almost no time.
Especially with qcow2 on virtio this helps to gain a bit of performance during
the initial writes. However, as soon as create a snapshot, we're back to the
normal slow speed, obviously. So this isn't the real fix, but kind of a cheat
while we're still having trouble with qcow2 on virtio.
Note that the option is disabled by default and needs to be specified
explicitly using qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* The code for option '-static' was wrong, so image creation
always created static images.
* Static images created with qemu-img did not set header entry
blocks_allocated.
* The size of the block map must be rounded to the next multiple
of SECTOR_SIZE, otherwise the block map is only read partially
for block map sizes which are not a multiple of SECTOR_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
These errors come up when compiling with gcc-4.3.3 and some older headers:
/scratch/froydnj/qemu.git/block/vpc.c: In function 'vpc_create':
/scratch/froydnj/qemu.git/block/vpc.c:514: error: value computed is not used
/scratch/froydnj/qemu.git/block/vpc.c:516: error: value computed is not used
/scratch/froydnj/qemu.git/block/vpc.c:517: error: value computed is not used
/scratch/froydnj/qemu.git/block/vpc.c:566: error: value computed is not used
Use memcpy to copy the strings instead of strncpy.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
As requested by Anthony make pthreads mandatory. This means we will always
have AIO available on posix hosts, and it will also allow enabling the I/O
thread unconditionally once it's ready.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This is a new block driver written from scratch
to support the VDI format in QEMU.
VDI is the native format used by Innotek / SUN VirtualBox.
Latest changes:
* stripped down version
(code for synchronous operations and experimental code removed)
* don't open VDI snapshot images (with uuid_link or uuid_parent)
* modified vdi_aio_cancel
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Message-Id:
Instead of storing the backing file in its own BlockDriverState, VMDK uses the
BlockDriverState of the raw image file it opened. This is wrong and breaks
functions that access the backing file or protocols. This fix replaces all
occurrences of s->hd->backing_* with bs->backing_*.
This fixes qemu-iotests failure in 020 (Commit changes to backing file).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
I used the following command to enable debugging:
perl -p -i -e 's/^\/\/#define DEBUG/#define DEBUG/g' * */* */*/*
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
In qemu-iotests, some large images are created using qemu-img.
Without checks for errors, qemu-img will just create an
empty image, and later read / write tests will fail.
With the patch, failures during image creation are detected
and reported.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The VM state offset is a concept internal to the image format. Replace
the old bdrv_{get,put}_buffer method that require an index into the
image file that is constructed from the VM state offset and an offset
into the vmstate with the bdrv_{load,save}_vmstate that just take an
offset into the VM state.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Contrary to what one could expect, the size of L1 tables is not cluster
aligned. So as we're writing whole sectors now instead of single entries,
we need to ensure that the L1 table in memory is large enough; otherwise
write would access memory after the end of the L1 table.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The performance of qcow2 has improved meanwhile, so we don't need to
special-case it any more. Switch the default to write-through caching
like all other block drivers.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The really time consuming part of snapshotting is to adjust the reference count
of all clusters. Currently after each adjusted cluster the refcount block is
written to disk.
Don't write each single byte immediately to disk but cache all writes to the
refcount block and write them out once we're done with the block.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When using O_DIRECT, qcow2 snapshots didn't work any more for me. In the
process of creating the snapshot, qcow2 tries to pwrite some new information
(e.g. new L1 table) which will often end up being after the old end of the
image file. Now pwrite tries to align things and reads the old contents of the
file, read returns 0 because there is nothing to read after the end of file and
pwrite is stuck in an endless loop.
This patch allows to pread beyond the end of an image file. Whenever the
given offset is after the end of the image file, the read succeeds and fills
the buffer with zeros.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is
interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".
This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above
filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0
anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:"
tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using
backslash.
Here are couple of examples:
scsi\:0\:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
http\://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb
file:scsi:0:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
file:http://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When updating the refcount blocks in update_refcount(), write complete sectors
instead of updating single entries.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When updating the L2 tables in alloc_cluster_link_l2(), write complete
sectors instead of updating single entries.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When modifying the L1 table, l2_allocate() needs to write complete sectors
instead of single entries. The L1 table is already in memory, reading it from
disk in the block layer to align the request is wasted performance.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The qcow2 source is now split into several more manageable files. During the
conversion quite some functions that were static before needed to be changed to
be global to make the source compile again.
We were lucky enough not to get name conflicts with these additional global
names, but they are not nice. This patch adds a qcow2_ prefix to all of the
global functions in qcow2.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
qcow2-snapshot.c contains the code related to snapshotting.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
qcow2-cluster.c contains all functions related to the management of guest
clusters, i.e. what the guest sees on its virtual disk. This code is about
mapping these guest clusters to host clusters in the image file using the
two-level lookup tables.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
qcow2-refcount.c contains all functions which are related to cluster
allocation and management in the image file. A large part of this is the
reference counting of these clusters.
Also a header file qcow2.h is introduced which will contain the interface of
the split qcow2 modules.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Larger cluster sizes mean less metadata. This has been discussion a few times,
let's do it now. This turns 64k clusters on by default for new images.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When we open a file, we first attempt to open it read-write, then fall back
to read-only. Unfortunately we reuse the flags from the previous attempt,
so both attempts try to open the file with write permissions, and fail.
Fix by clearing the O_RDWR flag from the previous attempt.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The flags argument to raw_common_open() contain bits defined by the BDRV_O_*
namespace, not the posix O_* namespace.
Adjust to use the correct constants.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Rename raw_ioctl and raw_aio_ioctl to hdev_ioctl and hdev_aio_ioctl as they
are only used for the host device. Also only add them to the method table
for the cases where we need them (generic hdev if linux and linux CDROM)
instead of declaring stubs and always add them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a bdrv_probe_device method to all BlockDriver instances implementing
host devices to move matching of host device types into the actual drivers.
For now we keep exacly the old matching behaviour based on the devices names,
although we really should have better detetion methods based on device
information in the future.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Instead of declaring one BlockDriver for all host devices declared one
for each type: a generic one for normal disk devices, a Linux floppy
driver and a CDROM driver for Linux and FreeBSD. This gets rid of a lot
of messy ifdefs and switching based on the type in the various removal
device methods.
block.c grows a new method to find the correct host device driver based
on OS-sepcific criteria, which will later into the actual drivers in a
later patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
raw_open and hdev_open contain the same basic logic. Add a new
raw_open_common helper containing the guts of the open routine
and call it from raw_open and hdev_open.
We use the new open_flags field in BDRVRawState to allow passing
additional open flags to raw_open_common from both.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Both the Linux floppy and the FreeBSD CDROM host device need to store
the open flags so that they can re-open the device later. Store the
open flags unconditionally to remove the ifdef mess and simply the
calling conventions for the later patches in the series.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch adds a small help text to each of the options in the block drivers
which can be displayed by using qemu-img create -f fmt -o ?
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Now that we have a separate aio pool structure we can remove those
aio pool details from BlockDriver.
Every driver supporting AIO now needs to declare a static AIOPool
with the aiocb size and the cancellation method. This cleans up the
current code considerably and will make it cleaner and more obvious
to support two different aio implementations behind a single
BlockDriver.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
[this one is required for [PATCH] fully split aio_pool from BlockDriver,
sorry for not sending it out earlier]
Add a qcow_aio_setup helper to qcow to shared common code between
the aio_readv and aio_writev methods. Based on the function with
the same name in qcow2.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
We do need hdev_create unconditionally on all platforms so that qemu-img
create support for host device works on all platforms.
Also relax the check to allow character devices in addition to block
devices. On many Unix platforms block devices have buffered block
nodes and unbuffered character device nodes, and on FreeBSD the block
nodes don't even exist anymore. Also on Linux we do support the
/dev/sgN scsi passthrough devices through the host device driver,
and probably the old-style /dev/raw/rawN raw devices although I haven't
tested that.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
raw_pread_aligned currently returns the raw return value from
lseek/read, which is always -1 in case of an error. But the
callers higher up the stack expect it to return the negated
errno just like raw_pwrite_aligned.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch converts the remaining users of bdrv_create2 to bdrv_create and
removes the now unused function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Don't write each single changed refcount block entry to the disk after it is
written, but update all entries of the block and write all of them at once.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This is a preparation patch with no functional changes. It moves the allocation
of new refcounts block to a new function and makes update_cluster_refcount (for
one cluster) call update_refcount (for multiple clusters) instead the other way
round.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
There is only one (internal) user left and it can be switched to the normal
emulation provided in block.c
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Currently Qemu can read from posix I/O and NBD. This patch adds a
third protocol to the game: HTTP.
In certain situations it can be useful to access HTTP data directly,
for example if you want to try out an http provided OS image, but
don't know if you want to download it yet.
Using this patch you can now try it on on the fly. Just use it like:
qemu -cdrom http://host/path/my.iso
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Add an option to specify the cluster size of a newly created qcow2 image.
Default is 4k which is the same value that was hard-coded before.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now we can make use of the newly introduced option structures. Instead of
having bdrv_create carry more and more parameters (which are format specific in
most cases), just pass a option structure as defined by the driver itself.
bdrv_create2() contains an emulation of the old interface to simplify the
transition.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Christoph Hellwig
Kevin Wolf
Stefan Weil
Blue Swirl
Nathan Froyd
Juan Quintela
G 3
Nolan
Anthony Liguori
Ram Pai
Filip Navara
Avi Kivity
Alexander Graf
malc