From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
stefanha@gmail.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
hch@lst.de
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][STABLE 0.13] Revert "qcow2: Use bdrv_(p)write_sync for metadata writes"
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:42:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C751DBB.8060101@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C75195A.8050508@redhat.com>
On 08/25/2010 08:23 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 03:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> If we had another disk format that only supported growth and metadata
>> for a backing file, can you think of another failure scenario?
>
> btw, only supporting growth is a step backwards. Currently
> file-backed disks keep growing even the guest-used storage doesn't
> grow, since once we allocate something we never release it. But
> eventually guests will start using TRIM or DISCARD or however it's
> called, and then we can expose it and reclaim unused blocks.
You can do this in one of two ways. You can do online compaction or you
can maintain a free list. Online compaction has an advantage because it
does not require any operations in the fast path whereas a free list
would require ordered metadata updates (must remove something from the
first list before updating the l2 table) which implies a sync.
At a high level, I don't think online compaction requires any specific
support from an image format.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-25 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-24 10:40 [Qemu-devel] [RFC][STABLE 0.13] Revert "qcow2: Use bdrv_(p)write_sync for metadata writes" Kevin Wolf
2010-08-24 11:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-08-24 11:06 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-08-24 11:40 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-08-24 11:56 ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-24 12:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-08-24 12:12 ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-24 12:18 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 12:21 ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-24 12:27 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 12:35 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-08-24 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 12:53 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-08-24 12:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-08-24 12:23 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-08-24 12:48 ` Juan Quintela
2010-08-24 13:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-24 13:16 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-08-24 13:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-24 13:31 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 13:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-24 13:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 13:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-24 13:44 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 13:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 7:14 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 12:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 13:07 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 13:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 13:23 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 13:42 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-08-25 14:00 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 14:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 14:36 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 15:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 15:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 15:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 13:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 14:03 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-25 14:37 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-25 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-25 14:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-25 14:49 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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