aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/qemu-img.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authoraurel32 <aurel32@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>2008-11-30 19:12:49 +0000
committeraurel32 <aurel32@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>2008-11-30 19:12:49 +0000
commit137519ce2e269915de0f67a13ac32b67605cad72 (patch)
tree0ba6e3dda0eae5d50e96992cfecd073d71acb713 /qemu-img.c
parentb8dbdddc9edda7d64352a837aa77c077c5dc960f (diff)
qemu-img: open files with cache=writeback
Data integrity is not important in qemu-img, so open the files with cache=writeback. This fixes the performance regression seen with qemu-img since revision 5485, and most particularly with the qcow2 format. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5839 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-img.c')
-rw-r--r--qemu-img.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 70c2403872..207535f4f7 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
#include <windows.h>
#endif
+/* Default to cache=writeback as data integrity is not important for qemu-tcg. */
+#define BRDV_O_FLAGS BDRV_O_CACHE_WB
+
static void __attribute__((noreturn)) error(const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list ap;
@@ -186,7 +189,7 @@ static BlockDriverState *bdrv_new_open(const char *filename,
} else {
drv = NULL;
}
- if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, 0, drv) < 0) {
+ if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, BRDV_O_FLAGS, drv) < 0) {
error("Could not open '%s'", filename);
}
if (bdrv_is_encrypted(bs)) {
@@ -317,7 +320,7 @@ static int img_commit(int argc, char **argv)
} else {
drv = NULL;
}
- if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, 0, drv) < 0) {
+ if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, BRDV_O_FLAGS, drv) < 0) {
error("Could not open '%s'", filename);
}
ret = bdrv_commit(bs);
@@ -691,7 +694,7 @@ static int img_info(int argc, char **argv)
} else {
drv = NULL;
}
- if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, 0, drv) < 0) {
+ if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, BRDV_O_FLAGS, drv) < 0) {
error("Could not open '%s'", filename);
}
bdrv_get_format(bs, fmt_name, sizeof(fmt_name));