From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] info blockstats (block-qcow2): show highest allocated offset (bytes)
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:09:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49671463.8050402@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49664ACA.9050807@redhat.com>
Uri Lublin schrieb:
> Although there may be many free blocks below that number (allocated and
> freed)
> the file system can not deallocate those blocks, and they have to be reused
> by qemu. Also note that due to fragmentation those free blocks may not
> be used on next allocations.
Any idea what would it mean to performance if we changed the behaviour
so that s->free_cluster_index always points to lowest free cluster? Then
most of the fragmentation should be gone.
If the impact would be too big we could still change the code to use two
free_cluster_indexes, one for single cluster allocation and one for
larger blocks. This was suggested earlier and I think there were even
patches for it, but I don't seem to remember who exactly suggested this.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 18:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] info blockstats (block-qcow2): show highest allocated offset (bytes) Uri Lublin
2009-01-08 19:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-11 9:26 ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-11 15:16 ` Shahar Frank
2009-01-09 9:09 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2009-01-11 9:31 ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-11 14:56 ` Shahar Frank
2009-01-12 9:50 ` Kevin Wolf
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