copy-on-read: skip non-guest reads if no copy needed

If the flag BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH was set, skip idling read/write
operations in COR-driver. It can be taken into account for the
COR-algorithms optimization. That check is being made during the
block stream job by the moment.

Add the BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH flag to the supported_read_flags of the
COR-filter.

block: Modify the comment for the flag BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH as we are
going to use it alone and pass it to the COR-filter driver for further
processing.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201216061703.70908-9-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

diff --git a/block/copy-on-read.c b/block/copy-on-read.c
index 71560984f6c28e3035e7cf11fe164945631c147c..9cad9e1b8c25697617a0d73ee7c7e21a77c1206f 100644 (file)
--- a/block/copy-on-read.c
+++ b/block/copy-on-read.c
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ static int cor_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
         return -EINVAL;
     }
 
+    bs->supported_read_flags = BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH;
+
     bs->supported_write_flags = BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED |
         (BDRV_REQ_FUA & bs->file->bs->supported_write_flags);
 
@@ -172,10 +174,14 @@ static int coroutine_fn cor_co_preadv_part(BlockDriverState *bs,
             }
         }
 
-        ret = bdrv_co_preadv_part(bs->file, offset, n, qiov, qiov_offset,
-                                  local_flags);
-        if (ret < 0) {
-            return ret;
+        /* Skip if neither read nor write are needed */
+        if ((local_flags & (BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH | BDRV_REQ_COPY_ON_READ)) !=
+            BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH) {
+            ret = bdrv_co_preadv_part(bs->file, offset, n, qiov, qiov_offset,
+                                      local_flags);
+            if (ret < 0) {
+                return ret;
+            }
         }
 
         offset += n;

diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index 127bdf3392d39e82a27f95fdb18bf4bf3715c14d..81fcaad5accae5978a51f78f8f5a522aebb1d721 100644 (file)
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -72,9 +72,11 @@ typedef enum {
     BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK        = 0x100,
 
     /*
-     * BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH may be used only together with BDRV_REQ_COPY_ON_READ
-     * on read request and means that caller doesn't really need data to be
-     * written to qiov parameter which may be NULL.
+     * BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH makes sense only in the context of copy-on-read
+     * (i.e., together with the BDRV_REQ_COPY_ON_READ flag or when a COR
+     * filter is involved), in which case it signals that the COR operation
+     * need not read the data into memory (qiov) but only ensure they are
+     * copied to the top layer (i.e., that COR operation is done).
      */
     BDRV_REQ_PREFETCH  = 0x200,