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[STABLE,0.13,10/13] qcow2: Remove unnecessary flush after L2 write

Message ID 1284381771-7333-11-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
State New
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Kevin Wolf Sept. 13, 2010, 12:42 p.m. UTC
When a new cluster was allocated, we only need a flush after the write to the
L2 table if it was a COW and we need to decrease the refcounts of the old
clusters.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7ec5e6a4ca43494949465f9f9f3d9e4c7c620503)
---
 block/qcow2-cluster.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/block/qcow2-cluster.c b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
index 166922f..f562b16 100644
--- a/block/qcow2-cluster.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@  static int write_l2_entries(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t *l2_table,
     int ret;
 
     BLKDBG_EVENT(bs->file, BLKDBG_L2_UPDATE);
-    ret = bdrv_pwrite_sync(bs->file, l2_offset + start_offset,
+    ret = bdrv_pwrite(bs->file, l2_offset + start_offset,
         &l2_table[l2_start_index], len);
     if (ret < 0) {
         return ret;
@@ -718,9 +718,17 @@  int qcow2_alloc_cluster_link_l2(BlockDriverState *bs, QCowL2Meta *m)
         goto err;
     }
 
-    for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
-        qcow2_free_any_clusters(bs,
-            be64_to_cpu(old_cluster[i]) & ~QCOW_OFLAG_COPIED, 1);
+    /*
+     * If this was a COW, we need to decrease the refcount of the old cluster.
+     * Also flush bs->file to get the right order for L2 and refcount update.
+     */
+    if (j != 0) {
+        bdrv_flush(bs->file);
+        for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
+            qcow2_free_any_clusters(bs,
+                be64_to_cpu(old_cluster[i]) & ~QCOW_OFLAG_COPIED, 1);
+        }
+    }
 
     ret = 0;
 err: