On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:36:13PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:33:05 +0100, "Daniel P. Berrange"
> <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I've been doing some work trying to run QEMU guests with a root filesystem
> > exported from the host using virtio 9pfs. One of the issues that I have
> > discovered is that the 9p FS running on QEMU appears to cap all reads at
> > 4096 bytes[1]. Any larger read will return only partial data for plain
> > files.
> >
>
> But we should loop in kernel, requesting for multiple 9p request.
>
> kernel does
>
> size = fid->iounit ? fid->iounit : fid->clnt->msize - P9_IOHDRSZ;
> if (count > size)
> ret = v9fs_file_readn(filp, NULL, udata, count, *offset);
> else
> ret = p9_client_read(fid, NULL, udata, *offset, count);
>
> and v9fs_file_readn() does..
>
> do {
> n = p9_client_read(fid, data, udata, offset, count);
> if (n <= 0)
> break;
>
> if (data)
> data += n;
> if (udata)
> udata += n;
>
> offset += n;
> count -= n;
> total += n;
> } while (count > 0 && n == size);
>
>
> I also did an strace of simple test and i see
>
> open("test", O_RDONLY) = 3
> read(3,
> "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192)
> = 8192
In my test I did
# strace -e trace=read,open perl -e 'open FOO, "/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB";
sysread FOO, $foo, 8192'
open("/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "! Copyright 1993 Massachusetts I"..., 8192) = 4096
Perhaps there is a guest kernel driver difference ? I'm using
2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
Regards,
Daniel
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