Plain image expansion spends a lot of time to update image file size.
This seriously affects the performance. The following simple test
qemu_img create -f parallels -o cluster_size=64k ./1.hds 64G
qemu_io -n -c "write -P 0x11 0 1024M" ./1.hds
could be improved if the format driver will pre-allocate some space
in the image file with a reasonable chunk.
This patch preallocates 128 Mb using bdrv_write_zeroes, which should
normally use fallocate() call inside. Fallback to older truncate()
could be used as a fallback using image open options thanks to the
previous patch.
The benefit is around 15%.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Karan <rkagan@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@parallels.com>
Message-id: 1430207220-24458-27-git-send-email-den@openvz.org
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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