When using file system that does not support fallocate() (e.g. NFS <
4.2), truncating the file only when preallocation=OFF speeds up creating
raw file.
Here is example run, tested on Fedora 24 machine, creating raw file on
NFS version 3 server.
$ time ./qemu-img-master create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 1g
Formatting 'mnt/test', fmt=raw size=1073741824 preallocation=falloc
real 0m21.185s
user 0m0.022s
sys 0m0.574s
$ time ./qemu-img-fix create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 1g
Formatting 'mnt/test', fmt=raw size=1073741824 preallocation=falloc
real 0m11.601s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.525s
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=mnt/test bs=1M count=1024 oflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 15.6627 s, 68.6 MB/s
real 0m16.104s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.220s
Running with strace we can see that without this change we do one
pread() and one pwrite() for each block. With this change, we do only
one pwrite() per block.
$ strace ./qemu-img-master create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 8192
...
pread64(9, "\0", 1, 4095) = 1
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 4095) = 1
pread64(9, "\0", 1, 8191) = 1
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 8191) = 1
$ strace ./qemu-img-fix create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 8192
...
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 4095) = 1
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 8191) = 1
This happens because posix_fallocate is checking if each block is
allocated before writing a byte to the block, and when truncating the
file before preallocation, all blocks are unallocated.
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We can get the maximum number of bytes for a single I/O transfer
from the BLKSECTGET ioctl, but we only perform this for block
devices. scsi-generic devices are represented as character devices,
and so do not issue this today. Update this, so that virtio-scsi
devices using the scsi-generic interface can return the same data.
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20170120162527.66075-4-farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Commit 6f6071745b ("raw-posix: Fetch max sectors for host block device")
introduced a routine to call the kernel BLKSECTGET ioctl, which stores the
result back to user space. However, the size of the data returned depends
on the routine handling the ioctl. The (compat_)blkdev_ioctl returns a
short, while sg_ioctl returns an int. Thus, on big-endian systems, we can
find ourselves accidentally shifting the result to a much larger value.
(On s390x, a short is 16 bits while an int is 32 bits.)
Also, the two ioctl handlers return values in different scales (block
returns sectors, while sg returns bytes), so some tweaking of the outputs
is required such that hdev_get_max_transfer_length returns a value in a
consistent set of units.
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20170120162527.66075-3-farman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
These files deal with the file protocol, not the raw format (the
file protocol is often used with other formats, and the raw
format is not forced to use the file protocol). Rename things
to make it a bit easier to follow.
Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
