2013/11/15 Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>

> Am 15.11.2013 um 06:01 hat Chunyan Liu geschrieben:
> > Set NOCOW flag to newly created images to solve performance issues on
> btrfs.
> >
> > Btrfs has terrible performance when hosting VM images, even more when
> the guest
> > in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate
> this bad
> > performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files (since having copy
> on
> > write for this kind of data is not useful).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cy...@suse.com>
>
> > diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
> > index 5054836..fe7dd9b 100644
> > --- a/include/qemu-common.h
> > +++ b/include/qemu-common.h
> > @@ -50,6 +50,15 @@
> >  #include "sysemu/os-posix.h"
> >  #endif
> >
> > +#ifdef __linux__
> > +#include <linux/fs.h>
> > +#include <sys/ioctl.h>
> > +
> > +#ifndef FS_NOCOW_FL
> > +#define FS_NOCOW_FL                     0x00800000 /* Do not cow file */
> > +#endif
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  #ifndef O_LARGEFILE
> >  #define O_LARGEFILE 0
> >  #endif
>
> hw/block/m25p80.c:219: Fehler: expected identifier before numeric constant
>
> On RHEL 6, there seems to be a naming conflict for READ, which is
> present in linux/fs.h and used as a local enum value by m25p80.c.
>
> Will update for this and GETFLAGS & SETFLAGS.

Thanks,
Chunyan


> Kevin
>
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