qemu/block/qed-l2-cache.c
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   1/*
   2 * QEMU Enhanced Disk Format L2 Cache
   3 *
   4 * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2010
   5 *
   6 * Authors:
   7 *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
   8 *
   9 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2 or later.
  10 * See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
  11 *
  12 */
  13
  14/*
  15 * L2 table cache usage is as follows:
  16 *
  17 * An open image has one L2 table cache that is used to avoid accessing the
  18 * image file for recently referenced L2 tables.
  19 *
  20 * Cluster offset lookup translates the logical offset within the block device
  21 * to a cluster offset within the image file.  This is done by indexing into
  22 * the L1 and L2 tables which store cluster offsets.  It is here where the L2
  23 * table cache serves up recently referenced L2 tables.
  24 *
  25 * If there is a cache miss, that L2 table is read from the image file and
  26 * committed to the cache.  Subsequent accesses to that L2 table will be served
  27 * from the cache until the table is evicted from the cache.
  28 *
  29 * L2 tables are also committed to the cache when new L2 tables are allocated
  30 * in the image file.  Since the L2 table cache is write-through, the new L2
  31 * table is first written out to the image file and then committed to the
  32 * cache.
  33 *
  34 * Multiple I/O requests may be using an L2 table cache entry at any given
  35 * time.  That means an entry may be in use across several requests and
  36 * reference counting is needed to free the entry at the correct time.  In
  37 * particular, an entry evicted from the cache will only be freed once all
  38 * references are dropped.
  39 *
  40 * An in-flight I/O request will hold a reference to a L2 table cache entry for
  41 * the period during which it needs to access the L2 table.  This includes
  42 * cluster offset lookup, L2 table allocation, and L2 table update when a new
  43 * data cluster has been allocated.
  44 *
  45 * An interesting case occurs when two requests need to access an L2 table that
  46 * is not in the cache.  Since the operation to read the table from the image
  47 * file takes some time to complete, both requests may see a cache miss and
  48 * start reading the L2 table from the image file.  The first to finish will
  49 * commit its L2 table into the cache.  When the second tries to commit its
  50 * table will be deleted in favor of the existing cache entry.
  51 */
  52
  53#include "trace.h"
  54#include "qed.h"
  55
  56/* Each L2 holds 2GB so this let's us fully cache a 100GB disk */
  57#define MAX_L2_CACHE_SIZE 50
  58
  59/**
  60 * Initialize the L2 cache
  61 */
  62void qed_init_l2_cache(L2TableCache *l2_cache)
  63{
  64    QTAILQ_INIT(&l2_cache->entries);
  65    l2_cache->n_entries = 0;
  66}
  67
  68/**
  69 * Free the L2 cache
  70 */
  71void qed_free_l2_cache(L2TableCache *l2_cache)
  72{
  73    CachedL2Table *entry, *next_entry;
  74
  75    QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(entry, &l2_cache->entries, node, next_entry) {
  76        qemu_vfree(entry->table);
  77        g_free(entry);
  78    }
  79}
  80
  81/**
  82 * Allocate an uninitialized entry from the cache
  83 *
  84 * The returned entry has a reference count of 1 and is owned by the caller.
  85 * The caller must allocate the actual table field for this entry and it must
  86 * be freeable using qemu_vfree().
  87 */
  88CachedL2Table *qed_alloc_l2_cache_entry(L2TableCache *l2_cache)
  89{
  90    CachedL2Table *entry;
  91
  92    entry = g_malloc0(sizeof(*entry));
  93    entry->ref++;
  94
  95    trace_qed_alloc_l2_cache_entry(l2_cache, entry);
  96
  97    return entry;
  98}
  99
 100/**
 101 * Decrease an entry's reference count and free if necessary when the reference
 102 * count drops to zero.
 103 */
 104void qed_unref_l2_cache_entry(CachedL2Table *entry)
 105{
 106    if (!entry) {
 107        return;
 108    }
 109
 110    entry->ref--;
 111    trace_qed_unref_l2_cache_entry(entry, entry->ref);
 112    if (entry->ref == 0) {
 113        qemu_vfree(entry->table);
 114        g_free(entry);
 115    }
 116}
 117
 118/**
 119 * Find an entry in the L2 cache.  This may return NULL and it's up to the
 120 * caller to satisfy the cache miss.
 121 *
 122 * For a cached entry, this function increases the reference count and returns
 123 * the entry.
 124 */
 125CachedL2Table *qed_find_l2_cache_entry(L2TableCache *l2_cache, uint64_t offset)
 126{
 127    CachedL2Table *entry;
 128
 129    QTAILQ_FOREACH(entry, &l2_cache->entries, node) {
 130        if (entry->offset == offset) {
 131            trace_qed_find_l2_cache_entry(l2_cache, entry, offset, entry->ref);
 132            entry->ref++;
 133            return entry;
 134        }
 135    }
 136    return NULL;
 137}
 138
 139/**
 140 * Commit an L2 cache entry into the cache.  This is meant to be used as part of
 141 * the process to satisfy a cache miss.  A caller would allocate an entry which
 142 * is not actually in the L2 cache and then once the entry was valid and
 143 * present on disk, the entry can be committed into the cache.
 144 *
 145 * Since the cache is write-through, it's important that this function is not
 146 * called until the entry is present on disk and the L1 has been updated to
 147 * point to the entry.
 148 *
 149 * N.B. This function steals a reference to the l2_table from the caller so the
 150 * caller must obtain a new reference by issuing a call to
 151 * qed_find_l2_cache_entry().
 152 */
 153void qed_commit_l2_cache_entry(L2TableCache *l2_cache, CachedL2Table *l2_table)
 154{
 155    CachedL2Table *entry;
 156
 157    entry = qed_find_l2_cache_entry(l2_cache, l2_table->offset);
 158    if (entry) {
 159        qed_unref_l2_cache_entry(entry);
 160        qed_unref_l2_cache_entry(l2_table);
 161        return;
 162    }
 163
 164    /* Evict an unused cache entry so we have space.  If all entries are in use
 165     * we can grow the cache temporarily and we try to shrink back down later.
 166     */
 167    if (l2_cache->n_entries >= MAX_L2_CACHE_SIZE) {
 168        CachedL2Table *next;
 169        QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(entry, &l2_cache->entries, node, next) {
 170            if (entry->ref > 1) {
 171                continue;
 172            }
 173
 174            QTAILQ_REMOVE(&l2_cache->entries, entry, node);
 175            l2_cache->n_entries--;
 176            qed_unref_l2_cache_entry(entry);
 177
 178            /* Stop evicting when we've shrunk back to max size */
 179            if (l2_cache->n_entries < MAX_L2_CACHE_SIZE) {
 180                break;
 181            }
 182        }
 183    }
 184
 185    l2_cache->n_entries++;
 186    QTAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&l2_cache->entries, l2_table, node);
 187}
 188