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authorEvgeny Yakovlev <eyakovlev@virtuozzo.com>2016-07-18 22:39:52 +0300
committerJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2016-07-18 18:19:01 -0400
commit3ff2f67a7c24183fcbcfe1332e5223ac6f96438c (patch)
tree0566b03b137403c149b74395f4a397705fb47f8a /include
parent2dd7e10d7c6ec6edbe610345cadd6ec82ee3e65f (diff)
downloadqemu-3ff2f67a7c24183fcbcfe1332e5223ac6f96438c.tar.gz
block: ignore flush requests when storage is clean
Some guests (win2008 server for example) do a lot of unnecessary flushing when underlying media has not changed. This adds additional overhead on host when calling fsync/fdatasync. This change introduces a write generation scheme in BlockDriverState. Current write generation is checked against last flushed generation to avoid unnessesary flushes. The problem with excessive flushing was found by a performance test which does parallel directory tree creation (from 2 processes). Results improved from 0.424 loops/sec to 0.432 loops/sec. Each loop creates 10^3 directories with 10 files in each. This affected some blkdebug testcases that were expecting error logs from failure-injected flushes which are now skipped entirely (tests 026 071 089). This also affects the performance of block jobs and thus BLOCK_JOB_READY events for driver-mirror and active block-commit commands now arrives faster, before QMP send successfully returns to caller (tests 141 144). Signed-off-by: Evgeny Yakovlev <eyakovlev@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 1468870792-7411-5-git-send-email-den@openvz.org CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> CC: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> CC: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/block/block_int.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/block_int.h b/include/block/block_int.h
index 805414619d..a6b13adb45 100644
--- a/include/block/block_int.h
+++ b/include/block/block_int.h
@@ -439,6 +439,11 @@ struct BlockDriverState {
int copy_on_read; /* if nonzero, copy read backing sectors into image.
note this is a reference count */
+ CoQueue flush_queue; /* Serializing flush queue */
+ unsigned int write_gen; /* Current data generation */
+ unsigned int flush_started_gen; /* Generation for which flush has started */
+ unsigned int flushed_gen; /* Flushed write generation */
+
BlockDriver *drv; /* NULL means no media */
void *opaque;