Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] block: initial VHDX driver support framework - supports open and probe

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 07.03.2013 um 17:12 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:23:54AM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:48:11AM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > > > +    ret = bdrv_pread(bs->file, s->bat_offset, s->bat, s->bat_rt.length);
> > > > +
> > > > +    for (i = 0; i < s->bat_entries; i++) {
> > > > +        le64_to_cpus(&s->bat[i]);
> > > > +    }
> > > 
> > > How does BAT size scale when the image size is increased?  QCOW2 and QED
> > > use caches for metadata that would be too large or wasteful to keep in
> > > memory.
> > 
> > The BAT size is dependent on the virtual disk size, and the block
> > size.  The block size is allowed to range from 1MB - 256MB.  There is
> > one BAT entry per block.
> > 
> > In practice, the large block size keeps the BAT entry table reasonable
> > (for a 127GB file, the block size created by Hyper-V is 32MB, so the
> > table is pretty small - 32KB).
> > 
> > However, I don't see anything in the spec that forces the block size
> > to be larger, for a large virtual disk size.  So for the max size of
> > 64TB, and the smallest block size of 1MB, keeping the BAT in memory
> > would indeed be excessive.
> > 
> > I'll re-read the spec, and see if there is anything that ties the
> > block size and virtual size together.  If not, I'll have to add
> > caching.
> 
> BTW the qcow2 cache code can be reused.

The add-cow series has patches to make it work outside of qcow2. I'm not
sure if there was something wrong with this part of the series, but at
least it could be a starting point.

Kevin