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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] reduce write bandwidth of qcow2 driver whi
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] reduce write bandwidth of qcow2 driver while allocating new cluster |
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Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:46:34 -0500 |
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On 08/28/2017 12:56 AM, Liu Qing wrote:
> Dear list,
> Recently I used fio to test qcow2 driver in the guest os, and found out
> that when a new cluster is allocated the 4K IO will occupy 64K(default cluster
> size) bandwith.
> From the code qcow2 driver will fill the unused part of new allocated
> cluster with 0 in perform_cow. These 0s are set in qcow2_co_readv when the
> read
> destination is not allocated and it has no backing file. Could I forbidden any
> further write in copy_sectors if the copy source is not allocated and it has
> no backing file? So only the requested data is written to the cluster.
> Function
> copy_sectors is only used by perform_cow in the master branch.
There have already been discussions on optimizing COW writes in a manner
similar to what you are describing; for example,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg00109.html
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