From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75B4C4332F for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2022 05:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229550AbiJDFwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2022 01:52:25 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42606 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229486AbiJDFwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2022 01:52:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 510 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:52:20 PDT Received: from host1.nc.manuel-bentele.de (host1.nc.manuel-bentele.de [92.60.37.180]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C03841658B; Mon, 3 Oct 2022 22:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id A63855E497; Tue, 4 Oct 2022 07:43:41 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manuel-bentele.de; s=dkim; t=1664862223; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:cc:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-language:in-reply-to:references; bh=0IQPBk0HRTduHZsmHP+k9foHwxcORE1gRHiBPhFIav4=; b=HYo7qjDZPXw/Zx384ZSCycLpWLZ8ARxxF4hctF/XC4EHHN5OWRAcgumnAT62QQtgEenAXs wuU9J1w2Twolufls/op925rK7Tuxugpl0BEpSrpsnxBnUKKeMTHRHJh/V1nyyr6yHpzQzT SsXQdoLDK5rLQFiBcrRpMm0Ssj39BIMZkthL8u0/yPbKxAmVDIxVXPlG3z0a4MOK5elBci /JcnG6fQiR0Y3zTyF3xgDGD3d8D0CiVRQBCVm8WgmxykF7FIdtIYBSjSGUxuEotx+hawFg QkTys34BKXZk7Q3S22/tRuf2wD+AiW55L6DM+tIqJA3Uo1omnf4YKeKNc6b0RA== Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 07:43:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.0 Subject: Re: ublk-qcow2: ublk-qcow2 is available Content-Language: en-US To: Ming Lei , io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kirill Tkhai , Stefan Hajnoczi , Simon Rettberg , Dirk von Suchodoletz References: From: Manuel Bentele In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Hi all, thanks for the notification.I want to note that the official "in kernel qcow2 (ro)" project was renamed to "xloop" and is now maintained on Github [1]. So far we are successfully using xloop toimplement our use case explained in [2]. Seems like we have a technical alternative to get file-format specific functionality out of the kernel. When I presented the "in kernel qcow2 (ro)" project idea on the mailing list [3], there was a discussion about whether file formats like qcow2 should be implemented in the kernel or not? Now, this question should be obsolete. [1] https://github.com/bwLehrpool/xloop [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg44858.html [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg39538.html Regards, Manuel On 9/30/22 11:24, Ming Lei wrote: > Hello, > > ublk-qcow2 is available now. > > So far it provides basic read/write function, and compression and snapshot > aren't supported yet. The target/backend implementation is completely > based on io_uring, and share the same io_uring with ublk IO command > handler, just like what ublk-loop does. > > Follows the main motivations of ublk-qcow2: > > - building one complicated target from scratch helps libublksrv APIs/functions > become mature/stable more quickly, since qcow2 is complicated and needs more > requirement from libublksrv compared with other simple ones(loop, null) > > - there are several attempts of implementing qcow2 driver in kernel, such as > ``qloop`` [2], ``dm-qcow2`` [3] and ``in kernel qcow2(ro)`` [4], so ublk-qcow2 > might useful be for covering requirement in this field > > - performance comparison with qemu-nbd, and it was my 1st thought to evaluate > performance of ublk/io_uring backend by writing one ublk-qcow2 since ublksrv > is started > > - help to abstract common building block or design pattern for writing new ublk > target/backend > > So far it basically passes xfstest(XFS) test by using ublk-qcow2 block > device as TEST_DEV, and kernel building workload is verified too. Also > soft update approach is applied in meta flushing, and meta data > integrity is guaranteed, 'make test T=qcow2/040' covers this kind of > test, and only cluster leak is reported during this test. > > The performance data looks much better compared with qemu-nbd, see > details in commit log[1], README[5] and STATUS[6]. And the test covers both > empty image and pre-allocated image, for example of pre-allocated qcow2 > image(8GB): > > - qemu-nbd (make test T=qcow2/002) > randwrite(4k): jobs 1, iops 24605 > randread(4k): jobs 1, iops 30938 > randrw(4k): jobs 1, iops read 13981 write 14001 > rw(512k): jobs 1, iops read 724 write 728 > > - ublk-qcow2 (make test T=qcow2/022) > randwrite(4k): jobs 1, iops 104481 > randread(4k): jobs 1, iops 114937 > randrw(4k): jobs 1, iops read 53630 write 53577 > rw(512k): jobs 1, iops read 1412 write 1423 > > Also ublk-qcow2 aligns queue's chunk_sectors limit with qcow2's cluster size, > which is 64KB at default, this way simplifies backend io handling, but > it could be increased to 512K or more proper size for improving sequential > IO perf, just need one coroutine to handle more than one IOs. > > > [1] https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/commit/9faabbec3a92ca83ddae92335c66eabbeff654e7 > [2] https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2099.1/9619/65757.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y > [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/889429/ > [4] https://lab.ks.uni-freiburg.de/projects/kernel-qcow2/repository > [5] https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/blob/master/qcow2/README.rst > [6] https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/blob/master/qcow2/STATUS.rst > > Thanks, > Ming