qcow2: skip writing zero buffers to empty COW areas
If COW areas of the newly allocated clusters are zeroes on the backing
image, efficient bdrv_write_zeroes(flags=BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK) can be
used on the whole cluster instead of writing explicit zero buffers later
in perform_cow().
iotest 060:
write to the discarded cluster does not trigger COW anymore.
Use a backing image instead.
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190516142749.81019-2-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index 7ccbfff..3e4042b 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -3215,6 +3215,8 @@
#
# @cor_write: a write due to copy-on-read (since 2.11)
#
+# @cluster_alloc_space: an allocation of file space for a cluster (since 4.1)
+#
# Since: 2.9
##
{ 'enum': 'BlkdebugEvent', 'prefix': 'BLKDBG',
@@ -3233,7 +3235,7 @@
'pwritev_rmw_tail', 'pwritev_rmw_after_tail', 'pwritev',
'pwritev_zero', 'pwritev_done', 'empty_image_prepare',
'l1_shrink_write_table', 'l1_shrink_free_l2_clusters',
- 'cor_write'] }
+ 'cor_write', 'cluster_alloc_space'] }
##
# @BlkdebugInjectErrorOptions:
