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* Reorganize struct Qcow2Cache for better struct packingJes Sorensen2011-01-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Move size after the two pointers in struct Qcow2Cache to get better packing of struct elements on 64 bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
* qcow2: Batch flushes for COWKevin Wolf2011-01-241-3/+17
| | | | | | | | | qcow2 calls bdrv_flush() after performing COW in order to ensure that the L2 table change is never written before the copy is safe on disk. Now that the L2 table is cached, we can wait with flushing until we write out the next L2 table. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
* qcow2: Use QcowCacheKevin Wolf2011-01-241-0/+10
| | | | | | | Use the new functions of qcow2-cache.c for everything that works on refcount block and L2 tables. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
* qcow2: Add QcowCacheKevin Wolf2011-01-241-0/+290
This adds some new cache functions to qcow2 which can be used for caching refcount blocks and L2 tables. When used with cache=writethrough they work like the old caching code which is spread all over qcow2, so for this case we have merely a cleanup. The interesting case is with writeback caching (this includes cache=none) where data isn't written to disk immediately but only kept in cache initially. This leads to some form of metadata write batching which avoids the current "write to refcount block, flush, write to L2 table" pattern for each single request when a lot of cluster allocations happen. Instead, cache entries are only written out if its required to maintain the right order. In the pure cluster allocation case this means that all metadata updates for requests are done in memory initially and on sync, first the refcount blocks are written to disk, then fsync, then L2 tables. This improves performance of scenarios with lots of cluster allocations noticably (e.g. installation or after taking a snapshot). Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>