From: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 6/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: seek unallocated L2 entries in one pass within md
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810123000.19834-7-andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810123000.19834-1-andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com>
When a cluster is unallocated but its L2 table exists, the seek code
walks it one cluster at a time: SEEK_DATA re-parses metadata for
every cluster of the range, and with a backing image each cluster
additionally costs a qio and completion allocation for the lower
delta descent.
If the unmapped range reaches the cluster border, prolong it over the
following unallocated L2 entries: they are cached in the very md page
the current entry was parsed from, so this is just scanning for
non-zero words. Then the lower delta is scanned in one pass over the
whole range, and SEEK_DATA without a backing image skips it in one go.
Entries with any subcluster or "reads as zeroes" bits set stop the
scan and spin parse_metadata() machinery.
On a 16G image (128K clusters, extended L2) with all L2 tables
allocated but no clusters mapped over a backing image with data at
15G, warm-cache SEEK_DATA improves from 44.8 ms to 0.4 ms.
https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-139407
Feature: dm-qcow2: block device over QCOW2 files driver
Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com>
---
drivers/md/dm-qcow2-map.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-qcow2-map.c b/drivers/md/dm-qcow2-map.c
index 6a73c32689eca..3bda108db725f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-qcow2-map.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-qcow2-map.c
@@ -4441,6 +4441,34 @@ static inline void seek_qio_next_clu(struct qio *qio, struct qcow2_map *map)
seek_qio_set_sector(qio, bi_sector);
}
+/*
+ * Manually scan L2 metadata pages until we hit something interesting.
+ * We do not take md_pages_lock here because we have no promises about
+ * concurrent writes anyway.
+ */
+static loff_t seek_extend_unmapped_end(struct qio *qio, struct qcow2_map *map,
+ loff_t end)
+{
+ struct qcow2 *qcow2 = qio->qcow2;
+ loff_t lim = SEEK_QIO_DATA(qio)->lim;
+ u32 step = 1 + qcow2->ext_l2;
+ u32 index = map->l2.index_in_page + step;
+ u64 *entries;
+
+ entries = kmap_local_page(map->l2.md->page);
+ for (; index + step <= PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(u64) && end < lim;
+ index += step) {
+ /* Zero test does not need be64_to_cpu() */
+ if (READ_ONCE(entries[index]) ||
+ (qcow2->ext_l2 && READ_ONCE(entries[index + 1])))
+ break;
+ end += qcow2->clu_size;
+ }
+ kunmap_local(entries);
+
+ return min_t(loff_t, end, lim);
+}
+
static struct qio *advance_and_spawn_lower_seek_qio(struct qio *old_qio, loff_t end)
{
struct qcow2 *lower = old_qio->qcow2->lower;
@@ -4503,12 +4531,15 @@ static int qcow2_llseek_hole_qio(struct qio *qio, int whence, loff_t *result)
struct qio *new_qio;
loff_t end;
- if (!(map.level & L2_LEVEL))
+ if (!(map.level & L2_LEVEL)) {
end = min_t(loff_t,
to_bytes(get_next_l2(qio)),
SEEK_QIO_DATA(qio)->lim);
- else
+ } else {
end = to_bytes(qio->bi_iter.bi_sector) + size;
+ if (!CLU_OFF(qio->qcow2, end))
+ end = seek_extend_unmapped_end(qio, &map, end);
+ }
new_qio = advance_and_spawn_lower_seek_qio(qio, end);
if (!new_qio) {
@@ -4552,6 +4583,15 @@ static int qcow2_llseek_hole_qio(struct qio *qio, int whence, loff_t *result)
qio->bi_iter.bi_sector += to_sector(size);
qio->bi_iter.bi_size -= size;
goto calc_subclu;
+ } else if (arg.unmapped && (map.level & L2_LEVEL)) {
+ loff_t end = to_bytes(qio->bi_iter.bi_sector) + size;
+
+ /* Skip the following unallocated entries in one go */
+ if (!CLU_OFF(qio->qcow2, end)) {
+ seek_qio_set_sector(qio,
+ seek_extend_unmapped_end(qio, &map, end));
+ continue;
+ }
}
}
--
2.43.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-10 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-10 12:29 [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 0/6] dm-qcow: lseek improvements Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-10 12:29 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 1/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: fix lower delta seek window clamp Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-10 12:29 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 2/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: keep seek parse window within limit Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-14 9:55 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2026-08-14 10:26 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-10 12:29 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 3/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: fix seek constant comparison Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-10 12:29 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 4/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: fix seek skip to the next L2 table Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-14 10:25 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2026-08-14 10:33 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-10 12:29 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 5/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: scan lower delta in one pass over empty L1 entry Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-14 11:09 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2026-08-14 12:00 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-10 12:30 ` Andrey Zhadchenko [this message]
2026-08-12 12:42 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 6/6] drivers/md/dm-qcow2: seek unallocated L2 entries in one pass within md Vasileios Almpanis
2026-08-12 12:50 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-08-14 11:55 ` [Devel] [PATCH VZ10 0/6] dm-qcow: lseek improvements Pavel Tikhomirov
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