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qcow2: add zstd cluster compression
authorDenis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Thu, 7 May 2020 08:25:20 +0000 (11:25 +0300)
committerMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Wed, 13 May 2020 12:20:31 +0000 (14:20 +0200)
commitd298ac10add95e2b7f8850332f3b755c8a23d925
treebf193bc9436246156677dd11c79a3b93fc13bfac
parent25dd077d1d0aaef23f8608468cbef9a396583b1b
qcow2: add zstd cluster compression

zstd significantly reduces cluster compression time.
It provides better compression performance maintaining
the same level of the compression ratio in comparison with
zlib, which, at the moment, is the only compression
method available.

The performance test results:
Test compresses and decompresses qemu qcow2 image with just
installed rhel-7.6 guest.
Image cluster size: 64K. Image on disk size: 2.2G

The test was conducted with brd disk to reduce the influence
of disk subsystem to the test results.
The results is given in seconds.

compress cmd:
  time ./qemu-img convert -O qcow2 -c -o compression_type=[zlib|zstd]
                  src.img [zlib|zstd]_compressed.img
decompress cmd
  time ./qemu-img convert -O qcow2
                  [zlib|zstd]_compressed.img uncompressed.img

           compression               decompression
         zlib       zstd           zlib         zstd
------------------------------------------------------------
real     65.5       16.3 (-75 %)    1.9          1.6 (-16 %)
user     65.0       15.8            5.3          2.5
sys       3.3        0.2            2.0          2.0

Both ZLIB and ZSTD gave the same compression ratio: 1.57
compressed image size in both cases: 1.4G

Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
QAPI part:
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200507082521.29210-4-dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
block/qcow2-threads.c
block/qcow2.c
configure
docs/interop/qcow2.txt
qapi/block-core.json