Commit dd577a26ff ("block/file-posix:
implement bdrv_co_invalidate_cache() on Linux") introduced page cache
invalidation so that cache.direct=off live migration is safe on Linux.
The invalidation takes a significant amount of time when the file is
large and present in the page cache. Normally this is not the case for
cross-host live migration but it can happen when migrating between QEMU
processes on the same host.
On same-host migration we don't need to invalidate pages for correctness
anyway, so an option to skip page cache invalidation is useful. I
investigated optimizing invalidation and detecting same-host migration,
but both are hard to achieve so a user-visible option will suffice.
As a bonus this option means that the cache invalidation feature will
now be detectable by libvirt via QMP schema introspection.
Suggested-by: Neil Skrypuch <neil@tembosocial.com>
Tested-by: Neil Skrypuch <neil@tembosocial.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190307164941.3322-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Message-Id: <20190307164941.3322-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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