qcow2: allocate cluster_cache/cluster_data on demand

Most qcow2 files are uncompressed so it is wasteful to allocate (32 + 1)
* cluster_size + 512 bytes upfront.  Allocate s->cluster_cache and
s->cluster_data when the first read operation is performance on a
compressed cluster.

The buffers are freed in .bdrv_close().  .bdrv_open() no longer has any
code paths that can allocate these buffers, so remove the free functions
in the error code path.

This patch can result in significant memory savings when many qcow2
disks are attached or backing file chains are long:

Before 12.81% (1,023,193,088B)
After   5.36% (393,893,888B)

Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170821135530.32344-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

diff --git a/block/qcow2-cluster.c b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
index f06c08f64c79ed13cb68934cdf75e7c4b406552f..8538533102bb029849857d183807f653e15d9799 100644 (file)
--- a/block/qcow2-cluster.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
@@ -1516,6 +1516,23 @@ int qcow2_decompress_cluster(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t cluster_offset)
         nb_csectors = ((cluster_offset >> s->csize_shift) & s->csize_mask) + 1;
         sector_offset = coffset & 511;
         csize = nb_csectors * 512 - sector_offset;
+
+        /* Allocate buffers on first decompress operation, most images are
+         * uncompressed and the memory overhead can be avoided.  The buffers
+         * are freed in .bdrv_close().
+         */
+        if (!s->cluster_data) {
+            /* one more sector for decompressed data alignment */
+            s->cluster_data = qemu_try_blockalign(bs->file->bs,
+                    QCOW_MAX_CRYPT_CLUSTERS * s->cluster_size + 512);
+            if (!s->cluster_data) {
+                return -ENOMEM;
+            }
+        }
+        if (!s->cluster_cache) {
+            s->cluster_cache = g_malloc(s->cluster_size);
+        }
+
         BLKDBG_EVENT(bs->file, BLKDBG_READ_COMPRESSED);
         ret = bdrv_read(bs->file, coffset >> 9, s->cluster_data,
                         nb_csectors);

diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
index fbfffadc76105857e9a5f7cb11d108f792472c73..a3679c69e83943d6a8e2b89adacf1fb344641d6b 100644 (file)
--- a/block/qcow2.c
+++ b/block/qcow2.c
@@ -1360,16 +1360,6 @@ static int qcow2_do_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
         goto fail;
     }
 
-    s->cluster_cache = g_malloc(s->cluster_size);
-    /* one more sector for decompressed data alignment */
-    s->cluster_data = qemu_try_blockalign(bs->file->bs, QCOW_MAX_CRYPT_CLUSTERS
-                                                    * s->cluster_size + 512);
-    if (s->cluster_data == NULL) {
-        error_setg(errp, "Could not allocate temporary cluster buffer");
-        ret = -ENOMEM;
-        goto fail;
-    }
-
     s->cluster_cache_offset = -1;
     s->flags = flags;
 
@@ -1507,8 +1497,6 @@ static int qcow2_do_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
     if (s->refcount_block_cache) {
         qcow2_cache_destroy(bs, s->refcount_block_cache);
     }
-    g_free(s->cluster_cache);
-    qemu_vfree(s->cluster_data);
     qcrypto_block_free(s->crypto);
     qapi_free_QCryptoBlockOpenOptions(s->crypto_opts);
     return ret;