Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] Adjust block size used by dd to speed QEMU domain save operations.
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:57:33PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599091
Saving a paused 512MB domain took 3m47s with the old block size of 512
bytes. Changing the block size to 1024*1024 decreased the time to 56
seconds. (Doubling again to 2048*1024 yielded 0 improvement; lowering
to 512k increased the save time to 1m10s, about 20%)
Surely we should have gone for 1024*1024 in this case ?
NB, since our XML header gets rounded up to a multiple of the block
size, smaller is better, because we're filling the disk with zeros
here :-)
---
src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h
index 1870b22..fd39b1c 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ int qemuMonitorMigrateToCommand(qemuMonitorPtr mon,
unsigned int background,
const char * const *argv);
-# define QEMU_MONITOR_MIGRATE_TO_FILE_BS 512llu
+# define QEMU_MONITOR_MIGRATE_TO_FILE_BS (1024llu * 2048)
int qemuMonitorMigrateToFile(qemuMonitorPtr mon,
unsigned int background,
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Daniel
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