The patch adds some preparation parts for incompatible compression type
feature to qcow2 allowing the use different compression methods for
image clusters (de)compressing.
It is implied that the compression type is set on the image creation and
can be changed only later by image conversion, thus compression type
defines the only compression algorithm used for the image, and thus,
for all image clusters.
The goal of the feature is to add support of other compression methods
to qcow2. For example, ZSTD which is more effective on compression than ZLIB.
The default compression is ZLIB. Images created with ZLIB compression type
are backward compatible with older qemu versions.
Adding of the compression type breaks a number of tests because now the
compression type is reported on image creation and there are some changes
in the qcow2 header in size and offsets.
The tests are fixed in the following ways:
* filter out compression_type for many tests
* fix header size, feature table size and backing file offset
affected tests: 031, 036, 061, 080
header_size +=8: 1 byte compression type
7 bytes padding
feature_table += 48: incompatible feature compression type
backing_file_offset += 56 (8 + 48 -> header_change + feature_table_change)
* add "compression type" for test output matching when it isn't filtered
affected tests: 049, 060, 061, 065, 082, 085, 144, 182, 185, 198, 206,
242, 255, 274, 280
Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
QAPI part:
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200507082521.29210-2-dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The BDRV_REQ_ZERO_WRITE is currently implemented in a way that first the
image is possibly preallocated and then the zero flag is added to all
clusters. This means that a copy-on-write operation may be needed when
writing to these clusters, despite having used preallocation, negating
one of the major benefits of preallocation.
Instead, try to forward the BDRV_REQ_ZERO_WRITE to the protocol driver,
and if the protocol driver can ensure that the new area reads as zeros,
we can skip setting the zero flag in the qcow2 layer.
Unfortunately, the same approach doesn't work for metadata
preallocation, so we'll still set the zero flag there.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200424142701.67053-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200424125448.63318-10-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
