qcow2: implement lazy refcounts

Lazy refcounts is a performance optimization for qcow2 that postpones
refcount metadata updates and instead marks the image dirty.  In the
case of crash or power failure the image will be left in a dirty state
and repaired next time it is opened.

Reducing metadata I/O is important for cache=writethrough and
cache=directsync because these modes guarantee that data is on disk
after each write (hence we cannot take advantage of caching updates in
RAM).  Refcount metadata is not needed for guest->file block address
translation and therefore does not need to be on-disk at the time of
write completion - this is the motivation behind the lazy refcount
optimization.

The lazy refcount optimization must be enabled at image creation time:

  qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts=on a.qcow2 10G
  qemu-system-x86_64 -drive if=virtio,file=a.qcow2,cache=writethrough

Update qemu-iotests 031 and 036 since the extension header size changes
when we add feature bit table entries.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/qcow2.h b/block/qcow2.h
index b5fefc0..b4eb654 100644
--- a/block/qcow2.h
+++ b/block/qcow2.h
@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ enum {
     QCOW2_INCOMPAT_MASK          = QCOW2_INCOMPAT_DIRTY,
 };
 
+/* Compatible feature bits */
+enum {
+    QCOW2_COMPAT_LAZY_REFCOUNTS_BITNR = 0,
+    QCOW2_COMPAT_LAZY_REFCOUNTS       = 1 << QCOW2_COMPAT_LAZY_REFCOUNTS_BITNR,
+
+    QCOW2_COMPAT_FEAT_MASK            = QCOW2_COMPAT_LAZY_REFCOUNTS,
+};
+
 typedef struct Qcow2Feature {
     uint8_t type;
     uint8_t bit;
@@ -245,6 +253,11 @@ static inline int qcow2_get_cluster_type(uint64_t l2_entry)
     }
 }
 
+/* Check whether refcounts are eager or lazy */
+static inline bool qcow2_need_accurate_refcounts(BDRVQcowState *s)
+{
+    return !(s->incompatible_features & QCOW2_INCOMPAT_DIRTY);
+}
 
 // FIXME Need qcow2_ prefix to global functions