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block: use fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) & fallocate(0) to write ze…
…roes

This sequence works efficiently if FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is not supported.
Unfortunately, FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is supported on really modern systems
and only for a couple of filesystems. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is much more
mature.

The sequence of 2 operations FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and 0 is necessary due
to the following reasons:
- FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE creates a hole in the file, the file becomes
  sparse. In order to retain original functionality we must allocate
  disk space afterwards. This is done using fallocate(0) call
- fallocate(0) without preceeding FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE will do nothing
  if called above already allocated areas of the file, i.e. the content
  will not be zeroed

This should increase the performance a bit for not-so-modern kernels.

CC: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
CC: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Denis V. Lunev authored and Kevin Wolf committed Feb 6, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -967,6 +967,25 @@ static ssize_t handle_aiocb_write_zeroes(RawPosixAIOData *aiocb)
}
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_FALLOCATE_PUNCH_HOLE
if (s->has_discard && s->has_fallocate) {
int ret = do_fallocate(s->fd,
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
aiocb->aio_offset, aiocb->aio_nbytes);
if (ret == 0) {
ret = do_fallocate(s->fd, 0, aiocb->aio_offset, aiocb->aio_nbytes);
if (ret == 0 || ret != -ENOTSUP) {
return ret;
}
s->has_fallocate = false;
} else if (ret != -ENOTSUP) {
return ret;
} else {
s->has_discard = false;
}
}
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_FALLOCATE
if (s->has_fallocate && aiocb->aio_offset >= bdrv_getlength(aiocb->bs)) {
int ret = do_fallocate(s->fd, 0, aiocb->aio_offset, aiocb->aio_nbytes);
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