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commit355ee2d0e8ca536a6278c9c763ddd2f136eace3f[log] [tgz]
authorAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>Tue Aug 04 15:14:39 2015 +0300
committerMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>Fri Sep 04 21:00:32 2015 +0200
tree1c7ef0bb90784bb806bc54c04c62f0fb33524520
parent2ef6093cd6990314304f2d3b18eb476ee418d73c [diff]
qcow2: mark the memory as no longer needed after qcow2_cache_empty()

After having emptied the cache, the data in the cache tables is no
longer useful, so we can tell the kernel that we are done with it. In
Linux this frees the resources associated with it.

The effect of this can be seen in the HMP commit operation: it moves
data from the top to the base image (and fills both caches), then it
empties the top image. At this point the data in that cache is no
longer needed so it's just wasting memory.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 08538b098e1faf6c92496477cf9b47a20e5aacea.1438690126.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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  2. backends/
  3. block/
  4. bsd-user/
  5. crypto/
  6. default-configs/
  7. disas/
  8. docs/
  9. fpu/
  10. fsdev/
  11. gdb-xml/
  12. hw/
  13. include/
  14. libcacard/
  15. libdecnumber/
  16. linux-headers/
  17. linux-user/
  18. migration/
  19. net/
  20. pc-bios/
  21. po/
  22. qapi/
  23. qga/
  24. qobject/
  25. qom/
  26. roms/
  27. scripts/
  28. slirp/
  29. stubs/
  30. target-alpha/
  31. target-arm/
  32. target-cris/
  33. target-i386/
  34. target-lm32/
  35. target-m68k/
  36. target-microblaze/
  37. target-mips/
  38. target-moxie/
  39. target-openrisc/
  40. target-ppc/
  41. target-s390x/
  42. target-sh4/
  43. target-sparc/
  44. target-tricore/
  45. target-unicore32/
  46. target-xtensa/
  47. tcg/
  48. tests/
  49. trace/
  50. ui/
  51. util/
  52. dtc
  53. pixman
  54. .exrc
  55. .gitignore
  56. .gitmodules
  57. .mailmap
  58. .travis.yml
  59. accel.c
  60. aio-posix.c
  61. aio-win32.c
  62. arch_init.c
  63. async.c
  64. balloon.c
  65. block.c
  66. blockdev-nbd.c
  67. blockdev.c
  68. blockjob.c
  69. bootdevice.c
  70. bt-host.c
  71. bt-vhci.c
  72. Changelog
  73. CODING_STYLE
  74. configure
  75. COPYING
  76. COPYING.LIB
  77. coroutine-gthread.c
  78. coroutine-sigaltstack.c
  79. coroutine-ucontext.c
  80. coroutine-win32.c
  81. cpu-exec.c
  82. cpus.c
  83. cputlb.c
  84. device-hotplug.c
  85. device_tree.c
  86. disas.c
  87. dma-helpers.c
  88. dump.c
  89. exec.c
  90. gdbstub.c
  91. HACKING
  92. hmp-commands.hx
  93. hmp.c
  94. hmp.h
  95. iohandler.c
  96. ioport.c
  97. iothread.c
  98. kvm-all.c
  99. kvm-stub.c
  100. LICENSE
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  102. MAINTAINERS
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  106. memory.c
  107. memory_mapping.c
  108. module-common.c
  109. monitor.c
  110. nbd.c
  111. numa.c
  112. os-posix.c
  113. os-win32.c
  114. page_cache.c
  115. qapi-schema.json
  116. qdev-monitor.c
  117. qdict-test-data.txt
  118. qemu-bridge-helper.c
  119. qemu-char.c
  120. qemu-coroutine-io.c
  121. qemu-coroutine-lock.c
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  127. qemu-img.c
  128. qemu-img.texi
  129. qemu-io-cmds.c
  130. qemu-io.c
  131. qemu-log.c
  132. qemu-nbd.c
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  137. qemu-seccomp.c
  138. qemu-tech.texi
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  140. qemu.nsi
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  142. qjson.c
  143. qmp-commands.hx
  144. qmp.c
  145. qtest.c
  146. README
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  148. softmmu_template.h
  149. spice-qemu-char.c
  150. tcg-runtime.c
  151. tci.c
  152. thread-pool.c
  153. thunk.c
  154. tpm.c
  155. trace-events
  156. translate-all.c
  157. translate-all.h
  158. user-exec.c
  159. VERSION
  160. version.rc
  161. vl.c
  162. xen-common-stub.c
  163. xen-common.c
  164. xen-hvm-stub.c
  165. xen-hvm.c
  166. xen-mapcache.c