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| author | Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> | 2020-10-21 17:58:46 +0300 |
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| committer | Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> | 2020-12-18 12:35:55 +0100 |
| commit | 33fa2222eb044147e75e5ec395e1fd53328bc9fb (patch) | |
| tree | ab0ecf1c0054e6eefbbcad0d015c2b677e76f0ad /qapi | |
| parent | 9530a25b8b7eb5cc1800b66ee617610cd43f0fad (diff) | |
| download | focaccia-qemu-33fa2222eb044147e75e5ec395e1fd53328bc9fb.tar.gz focaccia-qemu-33fa2222eb044147e75e5ec395e1fd53328bc9fb.zip | |
block: introduce preallocate filter
It's intended to be inserted between format and protocol nodes to preallocate additional space (expanding protocol file) on writes crossing EOF. It improves performance for file-systems with slow allocation. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Message-Id: <20201021145859.11201-9-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> [mreitz: Two comment fixes, and bumped the version from 5.2 to 6.0] Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | qapi/block-core.json | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json index 04c5196e59..3484986d1c 100644 --- a/qapi/block-core.json +++ b/qapi/block-core.json @@ -2829,7 +2829,7 @@ 'cloop', 'compress', 'copy-on-read', 'dmg', 'file', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'gluster', 'host_cdrom', 'host_device', 'http', 'https', 'iscsi', 'luks', 'nbd', 'nfs', 'null-aio', 'null-co', 'nvme', 'parallels', - 'qcow', 'qcow2', 'qed', 'quorum', 'raw', 'rbd', + 'preallocate', 'qcow', 'qcow2', 'qed', 'quorum', 'raw', 'rbd', { 'name': 'replication', 'if': 'defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)' }, 'sheepdog', 'ssh', 'throttle', 'vdi', 'vhdx', 'vmdk', 'vpc', 'vvfat' ] } @@ -3099,6 +3099,23 @@ 'luks': 'QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS'} } ## +# @BlockdevOptionsPreallocate: +# +# Filter driver intended to be inserted between format and protocol node +# and do preallocation in protocol node on write. +# +# @prealloc-align: on preallocation, align file length to this number, +# default 1048576 (1M) +# +# @prealloc-size: how much to preallocate, default 134217728 (128M) +# +# Since: 6.0 +## +{ 'struct': 'BlockdevOptionsPreallocate', + 'base': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat', + 'data': { '*prealloc-align': 'int', '*prealloc-size': 'int' } } + +## # @BlockdevOptionsQcow2: # # Driver specific block device options for qcow2. @@ -4006,6 +4023,7 @@ 'null-co': 'BlockdevOptionsNull', 'nvme': 'BlockdevOptionsNVMe', 'parallels': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat', + 'preallocate':'BlockdevOptionsPreallocate', 'qcow2': 'BlockdevOptionsQcow2', 'qcow': 'BlockdevOptionsQcow', 'qed': 'BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat', |