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From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:50:54 +0300
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/27] write/create for Parallels images with
	reasonable performance
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Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Roman Kagan <rkagan@parallels.com>, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>

This patchset provides an ability to create of/write to Parallels
images and some testing of the new code. Reading and writings are
optimized out and I expect the same or slightly better performance
as qcow2.

This patchset consists of not problematic part of the previous
patchset aka
   [PATCH v4 0/16] parallels format support improvements
and new write/create code but it does not contradict questionable code
with XML handling there.

Changes from v2:
- read performance is almost doubled (up to 360 Mb/sec), write performance
  is improved by 15-20%
- bat caching approach changed completely. bat_bitmap now contains the data
  in on-disk format, which allows to use this data for metadata cache
- incorrect close detection code is added (inuse field in the header)
- very basic check consistency code added

Changes from v1:
- patches 13-19 added, which boosts performance from 800 KiB/sec to
  near native performance

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Roman Kagan <rkagan@parallels.com>
CC: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

P.S. This is definitely not for 2.3...