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commit1ebf561c11302f4fbe4afdd82758fe053cf1d5fc[log] [tgz]
authorKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>Fri Sep 06 12:20:08 2013 +0200
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>Thu Sep 12 10:12:46 2013 +0200
tree97ddd797d3feefe5751a858b3b2df42efbd3dea1
parent670df5e3b4b5ef830a7c3c970170dbfa11cbb8d2 [diff]
qcow2: Discard VM state in active L1 after creating snapshot

During savevm, the VM state is written to the active L1 of the image and
then a snapshot is taken. After that, the VM state isn't needed any more
in the active L1 and should be discarded. This is implemented by this
patch.

The impact of not discarding the VM state is that a snapshot can never
become smaller than any previous snapshot (because it would be padded
with old VM state), and more importantly that future savevm operations
cause unnecessary COWs (with associated flushes), which makes subsequent
snapshots much slower.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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tree: 97ddd797d3feefe5751a858b3b2df42efbd3dea1
  1. audio/
  2. backends/
  3. block/
  4. bsd-user/
  5. default-configs/
  6. disas/
  7. docs/
  8. fpu/
  9. fsdev/
  10. gdb-xml/
  11. hw/
  12. include/
  13. libcacard/
  14. linux-headers/
  15. linux-user/
  16. net/
  17. pc-bios/
  18. po/
  19. qapi/
  20. qga/
  21. QMP/
  22. qobject/
  23. qom/
  24. roms/
  25. scripts/
  26. slirp/
  27. stubs/
  28. sysconfigs/
  29. target-alpha/
  30. target-arm/
  31. target-cris/
  32. target-i386/
  33. target-lm32/
  34. target-m68k/
  35. target-microblaze/
  36. target-mips/
  37. target-moxie/
  38. target-openrisc/
  39. target-ppc/
  40. target-s390x/
  41. target-sh4/
  42. target-sparc/
  43. target-unicore32/
  44. target-xtensa/
  45. tcg/
  46. tests/
  47. trace/
  48. ui/
  49. util/
  50. dtc
  51. pixman
  52. .exrc
  53. .gitignore
  54. .gitmodules
  55. .mailmap
  56. aio-posix.c
  57. aio-win32.c
  58. arch_init.c
  59. async.c
  60. balloon.c
  61. block-migration.c
  62. block.c
  63. blockdev-nbd.c
  64. blockdev.c
  65. blockjob.c
  66. bt-host.c
  67. bt-vhci.c
  68. Changelog
  69. CODING_STYLE
  70. configure
  71. COPYING
  72. COPYING.LIB
  73. coroutine-gthread.c
  74. coroutine-sigaltstack.c
  75. coroutine-ucontext.c
  76. coroutine-win32.c
  77. cpu-exec.c
  78. cpus.c
  79. cputlb.c
  80. device-hotplug.c
  81. device_tree.c
  82. disas.c
  83. dma-helpers.c
  84. dump.c
  85. exec.c
  86. gdbstub.c
  87. HACKING
  88. hmp-commands.hx
  89. hmp.c
  90. hmp.h
  91. iohandler.c
  92. ioport.c
  93. kvm-all.c
  94. kvm-stub.c
  95. LICENSE
  96. main-loop.c
  97. MAINTAINERS
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  101. memory.c
  102. memory_mapping.c
  103. migration-exec.c
  104. migration-fd.c
  105. migration-rdma.c
  106. migration-tcp.c
  107. migration-unix.c
  108. migration.c
  109. monitor.c
  110. nbd.c
  111. os-posix.c
  112. os-win32.c
  113. page_cache.c
  114. qapi-schema.json
  115. qdev-monitor.c
  116. qdict-test-data.txt
  117. qemu-bridge-helper.c
  118. qemu-char.c
  119. qemu-coroutine-io.c
  120. qemu-coroutine-lock.c
  121. qemu-coroutine-sleep.c
  122. qemu-coroutine.c
  123. qemu-doc.texi
  124. qemu-img-cmds.hx
  125. qemu-img.c
  126. qemu-img.texi
  127. qemu-io-cmds.c
  128. qemu-io.c
  129. qemu-log.c
  130. qemu-nbd.c
  131. qemu-nbd.texi
  132. qemu-options-wrapper.h
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  134. qemu-options.hx
  135. qemu-seccomp.c
  136. qemu-tech.texi
  137. qemu-timer.c
  138. qemu.nsi
  139. qemu.sasl
  140. qmp-commands.hx
  141. qmp.c
  142. qtest.c
  143. readline.c
  144. README
  145. rules.mak
  146. savevm.c
  147. spice-qemu-char.c
  148. tcg-runtime.c
  149. tci.c
  150. thread-pool.c
  151. thunk.c
  152. tpm.c
  153. trace-events
  154. translate-all.c
  155. translate-all.h
  156. user-exec.c
  157. VERSION
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  159. vl.c
  160. xbzrle.c
  161. xen-all.c
  162. xen-mapcache.c
  163. xen-stub.c