Current scheme of image fleecing looks like this:
[guest] [NBD export]
| |
|root | root
v v
[copy-before-write] -----> [temp.qcow2]
| target |
|file |backing
v |
[active disk] <-------------+
- On guest writes copy-before-write filter copies old data from active
disk to temp.qcow2. So fleecing client (NBD export) when reads
changed regions from temp.qcow2 image and unchanged from active disk
through backing link.
This patch makes possible new image fleecing scheme:
[guest] [NBD export]
| |
| root | root
v file v
[copy-before-write]<------[snapshot-access]
| |
| file | target
v v
[active-disk] [temp.img]
- copy-before-write does CBW operations and also provides
snapshot-access API. The API may be accessed through
snapshot-access driver.
Benefits of new scheme:
1. Access control: if remote client try to read data that not covered
by original dirty bitmap used on copy-before-write open, client gets
-EACCES.
2. Discard support: if remote client do DISCARD, this additionally to
discarding data in temp.img informs block-copy process to not copy
these clusters. Next read from discarded area will return -EACCES.
This is significant thing: when fleecing user reads data that was
not yet copied to temp.img, we can avoid copying it on further guest
write.
3. Synchronisation between client reads and block-copy write is more
efficient. In old scheme we just rely on BDRV_REQ_SERIALISING flag
used for writes to temp.qcow2. New scheme is less blocking:
- fleecing reads are never blocked: if data region is untouched or
in-flight, we just read from active-disk, otherwise we read from
temp.img
- writes to temp.img are not blocked by fleecing reads
- still, guest writes of-course are blocked by in-flight fleecing
reads, that currently read from active-disk - it's the minimum
necessary blocking
4. Temporary image may be of any format, as we don't rely on backing
feature.
5. Permission relation are simplified. With old scheme we have to share
write permission on target child of copy-before-write, otherwise
backing link conflicts with copy-before-write file child write
permissions. With new scheme we don't have backing link, and
copy-before-write node may have unshared access to temporary node.
(Not realized in this commit, will be in future).
6. Having control on fleecing reads we'll be able to implement
alternative behavior on failed copy-before-write operations.
Currently we just break guest request (that's a historical behavior
of backup). But in some scenarios it's a bad behavior: better
is to drop the backup as failed but don't break guest request.
With new scheme we can simply unset some bits in a bitmap on CBW
failure and further fleecing reads will -EACCES, or something like
this. (Not implemented in this commit, will be in future)
Additional application for this is implementing timeout for CBW
operations.
Iotest 257 output is updated, as two more bitmaps now live in
copy-before-write filter.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20220303194349.2304213-13-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
The same information is available via the 'recording' and 'busy' fields.
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Iotest 257 dumps a lot of in-progress information of backup job, such
as offset and bitmap dirtiness. Further commit will move backup to be
one block-copy call, which will introduce async parallel requests
instead of plain cluster-by-cluster copying. To keep things
deterministic, allow only one worker (only one copy request at a time)
for this test.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210116214705.822267-15-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Drop write notifiers and use filter node instead.
= Changes =
1. Add filter-node-name argument for backup qmp api. We have to do it
in this commit, as 257 needs to be fixed.
2. There are no more write notifiers here, so is_write_notifier
parameter is dropped from block-copy paths.
3. To sync with in-flight requests at job finish we now have drained
removing of the filter, we don't need rw-lock.
4. Block-copy is now using BdrvChildren instead of BlockBackends
5. As backup-top owns these children, we also move block-copy state
into backup-top's ownership.
= Iotest changes =
56: op-blocker doesn't shoot now, as we set it on source, but then
check on filter, when trying to start second backup.
To keep the test we instead can catch another collision: both jobs will
get 'drive0' job-id, as job-id parameter is unspecified. To prevent
interleaving with file-posix locks (as they are dependent on config)
let's use another target for second backup.
Also, it's obvious now that we'd like to drop this op-blocker at all
and add a test-case for two backups from one node (to different
destinations) actually works. But not in these series.
141: Output changed: prepatch, "Node is in use" comes from bdrv_has_blk
check inside qmp_blockdev_del. But we've dropped block-copy blk
objects, so no more blk objects on source bs (job blk is on backup-top
filter bs). New message is from op-blocker, which is the next check in
qmp_blockdev_add.
257: The test wants to emulate guest write during backup. They should
go to filter node, not to original source node, of course. Therefore we
need to specify filter node name and use it.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20191001131409.14202-6-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
SCSI devices are unused in test, drop them.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190920142056.12778-12-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
After backup-top filter appearing it's not possible to see dirty
bitmaps in top node, so use node-name instead.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190920142056.12778-10-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
When making backups based on bitmaps, the work estimate can be more
accurate. Update iotests to reflect the new strategy.
TOP work estimates are broken, but do not get worse with this commit.
That issue is addressed in the following commits instead.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190716000117.25219-7-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190716000117.25219-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
This test needs support for non-bitmap backups and missing or
unspecified bitmap sync modes, so rewrite the helpers to be a little
more generic.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190716000117.25219-4-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-18-jsnow@redhat.com
[Removed 'auto' group, as per new testing config guidelines --js]
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
