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This drops the unnecessary bdrv_truncate() from, and also improves,
cluster allocation code path.
Before, when we need a new cluster, get_cluster_offset truncates the
image to bdrv_getlength() + cluster_size, and returns the offset of
added area, i.e. the image length before truncating.
This is not efficient, so it's now rewritten as:
- Save the extent file length when opening.
- When allocating cluster, use the saved length as cluster offset.
- Don't truncate image, because we'll anyway write data there: just
write any data at the EOF position, in descending priority:
* New user data (cluster allocation happens in a write request).
* Filling data in the beginning and/or ending of the new cluster, if
not covered by user data: either backing file content (COW), or
zero for standalone images.
One major benifit of this change is, on host mounted NFS images, even
over a fast network, ftruncate is slow (see the example below). This
change significantly speeds up cluster allocation. Comparing by
converting a cirros image (296M) to VMDK on an NFS mount point, over
1Gbe LAN:
$ time qemu-img convert cirros-0.3.1.img /mnt/a.raw -O vmdk
Before:
real 0m21.796s
user 0m0.130s
sys 0m0.483s
After:
real 0m2.017s
user 0m0.047s
sys 0m0.190s
We also get rid of unchecked bdrv_getlength() and bdrv_truncate(), and
get a little more documentation in function comments.
Tested that this passes qemu-iotests for all VMDK subformats.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Read the documentation in qemu-doc.html or on http://wiki.qemu-project.org - QEMU team