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>
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