Some guests (win2008 server for example) do a lot of unnecessary
flushing when underlying media has not changed. This adds additional
overhead on host when calling fsync/fdatasync.
This change introduces a write generation scheme in BlockDriverState.
Current write generation is checked against last flushed generation to
avoid unnessesary flushes.
The problem with excessive flushing was found by a performance test
which does parallel directory tree creation (from 2 processes).
Results improved from 0.424 loops/sec to 0.432 loops/sec.
Each loop creates 10^3 directories with 10 files in each.
This affected some blkdebug testcases that were expecting error logs from
failure-injected flushes which are now skipped entirely
(tests 026 071 089).
This also affects the performance of block jobs and thus BLOCK_JOB_READY
events for driver-mirror and active block-commit commands now arrives
faster, before QMP send successfully returns to caller (tests 141 144).
Signed-off-by: Evgeny Yakovlev <eyakovlev@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1468870792-7411-5-git-send-email-den@openvz.org
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Tests 071 and 081 test giving references in blockdev-add. It is not
necessary to create a BlockBackend here, so omit it.
While at it, fix up some blockdev-add invocations in the vicinity
(s/raw/$IMGFMT/ in 081, drop the format BDS for blkverify's raw child in
071).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch fixes an io test suite issue that was introduced with the
commit c88930a686 'qemu-char: Permit only
a single "stdio" character device'. The option supresses the creation of
default devices such as the floopy and cdrom. Output files for test case
067, 071, 081 and 087 need to be updated to accommodate this change.
Use virtio-blk instead of virtio-blk-pci as the device driver for test
case 067. For virtio-blk-pci is the same with virtio-blk as device
driver but other platform such as s390 may not recognize the virtio-blk-pci.
The default devices differ across machines. As the qemu output often
contains these devices (or events for them, like opening a CD tray on
reset), the reference output currently is rather machine-specific.
All existing qemu tests explicitly configure the devices they're working
with, so just pass -nodefaults to qemu by default to disable the default
devices. Update the reference outputs accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guang Chen <chenxg@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Filter out the "main loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for..." warning from
qemu output (it hardly matters for code specifically testing I/O).
Furthermore, use _filter_qemu in all the custom functions which run
qemu.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This is simply:
$ cd tests/qemu-iotests; sed -i -e 's/ *$//' *.out
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1418110684-19528-2-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qcow2_cache_flush() may fail; if one of the caches failed to be flushed
successfully to disk in qcow2_close() the image should not be marked
clean, and we should emit a warning.
This breaks the (qcow2-specific) iotests 026, 071 and 089; change their
output accordingly.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch changes $QEMU_IO so that all tests by default pass a format
argument to qemu-io.
There are a few cases where -f $IMGFMT is not wanted because it selects
the wrong driver or json: filenames including a driver are used. They
are changed to use $QEMU_IO_PROG, which doesn't include any options.
Tests 071 and 081 have output changes because now the actual request
fails instead of reading the 2k probing buffer.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1416497234-29880-3-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add a test for the new blkdebug/blkverify interface.
This test is not written in Python, although it uses QMP. This is
because it invokes the qemu-io HMP command, which outputs errors to
stderr instead of returning them through QMP. Filtering and testing that
output is easier in a shell script than with the Python infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
