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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/8] qcow2: Take the image size into account when
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Leonid Bloch |
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/8] qcow2: Take the image size into account when allocating the L2 cache |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:52:59 +0300 |
This series makes the qcow2 L2 cache assignment aware of the image size,
with the intention for it to cover the entire image. The importance of
this change is in noticeable performance improvement, especially with
heavy random I/O. The memory overhead is not big in most cases, as only
1 MB of cache for every 8 GB of image size is used. For cases with very
large images and/or small cluster sizes, or systems with limited RAM
resources, there is an upper limit on the default L2 cache: 32 MB. To
modify this limit one can use the already existing 'l2-cache-size' and
'cache-size' options. Moreover, this fixes the behavior of 'l2-cache-size',
as it was documented as the *maximum* L2 cache size, but in practice
behaved as the absolute size.
To compensate the memory overhead which may be increased following this
behavior, the default cache-clean-interval is set to 10 minutes by default
(was disabled by default before).
The L2 cache is also resized accordingly, by default, if the image is
resized.
Additionally, few minor changes are made (refactoring and documentation
fixes).
Differences from v1:
* .gitignore modification patch removed (unneeded).
* The grammar fix in conflicting cache sizing patch removed (merged).
* The update total_sectors when resizing patch squashed with the
resizing patch.
* L2 cache is now capped at 32 MB.
* The default cache-clean-interval is set to 30 seconds.
Differences from v2:
* Made it clear in the documentation that setting cache-clean-interval
to 0 disables this feature.
Differences from v3:
* The default cache-clean-interval is set to 10 minutes instead of 30
seconds before.
* Commit message changes to better explain the patches.
* Some refactoring.
Differences from v4:
* Refactoring.
* Documentation and commit message fixes.
Differences from v5:
* A patch with cosmetic changes is split from the main patch
* A patch for avoiding duplication in refcount cache size assignment is
split from the main patch.
* In the main patch the cap on the L2 cache size is set to only 1 MB (in
order to be close to the previous behavior) and a separate patch sets
it to 32 MB.
* Changes in the documentation fixes patch [1/8].
Leonid Bloch (8):
qcow2: Options' documentation fixes
qcow2: Cosmetic changes
qcow2: Avoid duplication in setting the refcount cache size
qcow2: Assign the L2 cache relatively to the image size
qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size
qcow2: Resize the cache upon image resizing
qcow2: Set the default cache-clean-interval to 10 minutes
qcow2: Explicit number replaced by a constant
block/qcow2.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
block/qcow2.h | 5 ++--
docs/qcow2-cache.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++---------
qapi/block-core.json | 3 ++-
qemu-options.hx | 11 +++++---
tests/qemu-iotests/137 | 1 -
tests/qemu-iotests/137.out | 1 -
7 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
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2.17.1
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/8] qcow2: Take the image size into account when allocating the L2 cache,
Leonid Bloch <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/8] qcow2: Options' documentation fixes, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/8] qcow2: Cosmetic changes, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 3/8] qcow2: Avoid duplication in setting the refcount cache size, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 4/8] qcow2: Assign the L2 cache relatively to the image size, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 6/8] qcow2: Resize the cache upon image resizing, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 5/8] qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 7/8] qcow2: Set the default cache-clean-interval to 10 minutes, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 8/8] qcow2: Explicit number replaced by a constant, Leonid Bloch, 2018/08/09