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In some cases buf_align or request_alignment cannot be detected: 1. With Gluster, buf_align cannot be detected since the actual I/O is done on Gluster server, and qemu buffer alignment does not matter. Since we don't have alignment requirement, buf_align=1 is the best value. 2. With local XFS filesystem, buf_align cannot be detected if reading from unallocated area. In this we must align the buffer, but we don't know what is the correct size. Using the wrong alignment results in I/O error. 3. With Gluster backed by XFS, request_alignment cannot be detected if reading from unallocated area. In this case we need to use the correct alignment, and failing to do so results in I/O errors. 4. With NFS, the server does not use direct I/O, so both buf_align cannot be detected. In this case we don't need any alignment so we can use buf_align=1 and request_alignment=1. These cases seems to work when storage sector size is 512 bytes, because the current code starts checking align=512. If the check succeeds because alignment cannot be detected we use 512. But this does not work for storage with 4k sector size. To determine if we can detect the alignment, we probe first with align=1. If probing succeeds, maybe there are no alignment requirement (cases 1, 4) or we are probing unallocated area (cases 2, 3). Since we don't have any way to tell, we treat this as undetectable alignment. If probing with align=1 fails with EINVAL, but probing with one of the expected alignments succeeds, we know that we found a working alignment. Practically the alignment requirements are the same for buffer alignment, buffer length, and offset in file. So in case we cannot detect buf_align, we can use request alignment. If we cannot detect request alignment, we can fallback to a safe value. To use this logic, we probe first request alignment instead of buf_align. Here is a table showing the behaviour with current code (the value in parenthesis is the optimal value). Case Sector buf_align (opt) request_alignment (opt) result ====================================================================== 1 512 512 (1) 512 (512) OK 1 4096 512 (1) 4096 (4096) FAIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 512 512 (512) 512 (512) OK 2 4096 512 (4096) 4096 (4096) FAIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 512 512 (1) 512 (512) OK 3 4096 512 (1) 512 (4096) FAIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 512 512 (1) 512 (1) OK 4 4096 512 (1) 512 (1) OK Same cases with this change: Case Sector buf_align (opt) request_alignment (opt) result ====================================================================== 1 512 512 (1) 512 (512) OK 1 4096 4096 (1) 4096 (4096) OK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 512 512 (512) 512 (512) OK 2 4096 4096 (4096) 4096 (4096) OK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 512 4096 (1) 4096 (512) OK 3 4096 4096 (1) 4096 (4096) OK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 512 4096 (1) 4096 (1) OK 4 4096 4096 (1) 4096 (1) OK I tested that provisioning VMs and copying disks on local XFS and Gluster with 4k bytes sector size work now, resolving bugs [1],[2]. I tested also on XFS, NFS, Gluster with 512 bytes sector size. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1737256 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1738657 Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> |
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QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
-- End