[PATCH v2 0/2] qcow2: seriously improve savevm performance

Denis V. Lunev posted 2 patches 3 years, 10 months ago
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Maintainers: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
[PATCH v2 0/2] qcow2: seriously improve savevm performance
Posted by Denis V. Lunev 3 years, 10 months ago
This series do standard basic things:
- it creates intermediate buffer for all writes from QEMU migration code
  to QCOW2 image,
- this buffer is sent to disk asynchronously, allowing several writes to
  run in parallel.

In general, migration code is fantastically inefficent (by observation),
buffers are not aligned and sent with arbitrary pieces, a lot of time
less than 100 bytes at a chunk, which results in read-modify-write
operations with non-cached operations. It should also be noted that all
operations are performed into unallocated image blocks, which also suffer
due to partial writes to such new clusters.

This patch series is an implementation of idea discussed in the RFC
posted by Denis
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-04/msg01925.html
Results with this series over NVME are better than original code
                original     rfc    this
cached:          1.79s      2.38s   1.27s
non-cached:      3.29s      1.31s   0.81s

Changes from v1:
- patchew warning fixed
- fixed validation that only 1 waiter is allowed in patch 1

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
CC: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
CC: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>