qcow2: handle_dependencies(): relax conflict detection

There is no conflict and no dependency if we have parallel writes to
different subclusters of one cluster when the cluster itself is already
allocated. So, relax extra dependency.

Measure performance:
First, prepare build/qemu-img-old and build/qemu-img-new images.

cd scripts/simplebench
./img_bench_templater.py

Paste the following to stdin of running script:

qemu_img=../../build/qemu-img-{old|new}
$qemu_img create -f qcow2 -o extended_l2=on /ssd/x.qcow2 1G
$qemu_img bench -c 100000 -d 8 [-s 2K|-s 2K -o 512|-s $((1024*2+512))] \
        -w -t none -n /ssd/x.qcow2

The result:

All results are in seconds

------------------  ---------  ---------
                    old        new
-s 2K               6.7 ± 15%  6.2 ± 12%
                                 -7%
-s 2K -o 512        13 ± 3%    11 ± 5%
                                 -16%
-s $((1024*2+512))  9.5 ± 4%   8.4
                                 -12%
------------------  ---------  ---------

So small writes are more independent now and that helps to keep deeper
io queue which improves performance.

271 iotest output becomes racy for three allocation in one cluster.
Second and third writes may finish in different order. Second and
third requests don't depend on each other any more. Still they both
depend on first request anyway. Filter out second and third write
offsets to cover both possible outputs.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20210824101517.59802-4-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
[hreitz: s/ an / and /]
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/qcow2-cluster.c b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
index 9917e5c28c..c1c43a891b 100644
--- a/block/qcow2-cluster.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
@@ -1403,6 +1403,17 @@ static int handle_dependencies(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t guest_offset,
             continue;
         }
 
+        if (old_alloc->keep_old_clusters &&
+            (end <= l2meta_cow_start(old_alloc) ||
+             start >= l2meta_cow_end(old_alloc)))
+        {
+            /*
+             * Clusters intersect but COW areas don't. And cluster itself is
+             * already allocated. So, there is no actual conflict.
+             */
+            continue;
+        }
+
         /* Conflict */
 
         if (start < old_start) {