Now that we are truncating the file in both PREALLOC_MODE_FULL and
PREALLOC_MODE_OFF, not truncating in PREALLOC_MODE_FALLOC looks odd.
Add a comment explaining why we do not truncate in this case.
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
In a previous commit (qemu-img: Do not truncate before preallocation) we
moved truncate to the PREALLOC_MODE_OFF branch to avoid slowdown in
posix_fallocate().
However this change is not optimal when using PREALLOC_MODE_FULL, since
knowing the final size from the beginning could allow the file system
driver to do less allocations and possibly avoid fragmentation of the
file.
Now we truncate also before doing full preallocation.
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add tests for creating raw image with and without the preallocation
option.
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
When using file system that does not support fallocate() (e.g. NFS <
4.2), truncating the file only when preallocation=OFF speeds up creating
raw file.
Here is example run, tested on Fedora 24 machine, creating raw file on
NFS version 3 server.
$ time ./qemu-img-master create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 1g
Formatting 'mnt/test', fmt=raw size=1073741824 preallocation=falloc
real 0m21.185s
user 0m0.022s
sys 0m0.574s
$ time ./qemu-img-fix create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 1g
Formatting 'mnt/test', fmt=raw size=1073741824 preallocation=falloc
real 0m11.601s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.525s
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=mnt/test bs=1M count=1024 oflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 15.6627 s, 68.6 MB/s
real 0m16.104s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.220s
Running with strace we can see that without this change we do one
pread() and one pwrite() for each block. With this change, we do only
one pwrite() per block.
$ strace ./qemu-img-master create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 8192
...
pread64(9, "\0", 1, 4095) = 1
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 4095) = 1
pread64(9, "\0", 1, 8191) = 1
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 8191) = 1
$ strace ./qemu-img-fix create -f raw -o preallocation=falloc mnt/test 8192
...
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 4095) = 1
pwrite64(9, "\0", 1, 8191) = 1
This happens because posix_fallocate is checking if each block is
allocated before writing a byte to the block, and when truncating the
file before preallocation, all blocks are unallocated.
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The result of openfile was not checked, leading to failure deep in the
actual command with confusing error message, and exiting with exit code 0.
Here is a simple example - trying to read with the wrong format:
$ touch file
$ qemu-io -f qcow2 -c 'read -P 1 0 1024' file; echo $?
can't open device file: Image is not in qcow2 format
no file open, try 'help open'
0
With this patch, we fail earlier with exit code 1:
$ ./qemu-io -f qcow2 -c 'read -P 1 0 1024' file; echo $?
can't open device file: Image is not in qcow2 format
1
Failing earlier, we don't log this error now:
no file open, try 'help open'
But some tests expected it; the line was removed from the test output.
Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170201003120.23378-2-nirsof@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Nir Soffer