qcow2 writes a cluster reference count on every cluster update. This causes
performance to crater when using anything but cache=writeback. This is most
noticeable when using savevm. Right now, qcow2 isn't a reliable format
regardless of the type of cache your using because metadata is not updated in
the correct order. Considering this, I think it's somewhat reasonable to use
writeback caching by default with qcow2 files.
It at least avoids the massive performance regression for users until we sort
out the issues in qcow2.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Currently the order is this (during cow since it's the interesting case):
1. Decrement refcount of old clusters
2. Increment refcount for newly allocated clusters
3. Copy content of old sectors that will not be rewritten
4. Update L2 table with pointers to new clusters
5. Write guest data into new clusters (asynchronously)
There are several problems with this order. The first one is that if qemu
crashes (or killed or host reboots) after new clusters are linked into L2
table but before user data is written there, then on the next reboot guest
will find neither old data nor new one in those sectors and this is not
what gust expects even when journaling file system is in use. The other
problem is that if qemu is killed between steps 1 and 4 then refcount
of old cluster will be incorrect and may cause snapshot corruption.
The patch change the order to be like this:
1. Increment refcount for newly allocated clusters
2. Write guest data into new clusters (asynchronously)
3. Copy content of old sectors that were not rewritten
4. Update L2 table with pointers to new clusters
5. Decrement refcount of old clusters
Unexpected crash may cause cluster leakage, but guest data should be safe.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Otherwise if VM is killed between two writes data may be lost.
But if offset and size fields are at the same disk block one
write should update them both simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Use it to remove code duplications from qcow_aio_read_cb().
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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I noticed the qemu_aio_flush was doing nothing at all. And a flood of
cmd_writeb commands leading to a noop-invocation of qemu_aio_flush
were executed.
In short all 'memset;goto redo' places must be fixed to use the bh and
not to call the callback in the context of bdrv_aio_read or the
bdrv_aio_read model falls apart. Reading from qcow2 holes is possible
with phyisical readahead (kind of breada in linux buffer cache).
This is needed at least for scsi, ide is lucky (or it has been
band-aided against this API breakage by fixing the symptom and not the
real bug).
Same bug exists in qcow of course, can be fixed later as it's less
urgent.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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During the debugging of the new revision of the zero dedup patch I
stepped on the following bug in block-qcow2.c:alloc_cluster_offset(). I
am not sure what the exact damage this bug can do, but it may be very
nasty because you way not notice it effects until you will do some
snapshot operations or similar actions that rely on the reference
counting.
The bug is easy to spot using the new "check" verb I added to the
qemu-img in one of the previous patches. I will resend the qemu-img
patch again with the new version of the zero dedup.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Frank <shaharf@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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With this container_of can actually be used without causing build errors.
Reformat container_of.
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This was suggested by Kevin Wolf since this is, in fact, an error condition.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Modify get_cluster_offset(), alloc_cluster_offset() to specify how many clusters
we want.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Divide alloc_cluster_offset() into alloc_cluster_offset() and
alloc_compressed_cluster_offset().
Common parts are moved to free_any_clusters() and get_cluster_table();
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Extract code from get_cluster_offset() into new functions:
- seek_l2_table()
Search an l2 offset in the l2_cache table.
- l2_load()
Read the l2 entry from disk
- l2_allocate()
Allocate a new l2 entry.
Some comment fixups from Kevin Wolf
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device
read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root
privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine.
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Remove QEMU_TOOL. Replace with QEMU_IMG and NEED_CPU_H.
Avoid linking qemu-img against whole system emulatior.
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