block/iscsi: allow caching of the allocation map
until now the allocation map was used only as a hint if a cluster is allocated or not. If a block was not allocated (or Qemu had no info about the allocation status) a get_block_status call was issued to check the allocation status and possibly avoid a subsequent read of unallocated sectors. If a block known to be allocated the get_block_status call was omitted. In the other case a get_block_status call was issued before every read to avoid the necessity for a consistent allocation map. To avoid the potential overhead of calling get_block_status for each and every read request this took only place for the bigger requests. This patch enhances this mechanism to cache the allocation status and avoid calling get_block_status for blocks where the allocation status has been queried before. This allows for bypassing the read request even for smaller requests and additionally omits calling get_block_status for known to be unallocated blocks. Signed-off-by:Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de> Message-Id: <1468831940-15556-3-git-send-email-pl@kamp.de> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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