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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-04-06 17:37:33 -0400 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2021-04-08 15:12:01 -0400 |
| commit | bdc96f6e0e7fbf502f368d3381297ec0b75216d7 (patch) | |
| tree | fe8f1a9b73646552fbc40ade465841dcaa2f0826 /gnu/system | |
| parent | c762df54786fd6f005f3b5307323f1d2df3cbf0b (diff) | |
system: vm: Set a larger value for the msize option of the 9p file system.
Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47225>.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (%default-msize-value): New variable.
(%linux-vm-file-systems): Use it as the value of the msize option.
(mapping->file-system): Likewise.
Reported-by: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/vm.scm | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm index 3d0935b3af..1efae7ff06 100644 --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ ;;; ;;; Code: +;; By default, the msize value is 8 KiB, which according to QEMU is +;; insufficient and would degrade performance. The msize value should roughly +;; match the bandwidth of the system's IO (see: +;; https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup#msize). Use 100 MiB as a +;; conservative default. +(define %default-msize-value (* 100 (expt 2 20))) ;100 MiB + (define %linux-vm-file-systems ;; File systems mounted for 'derivation-in-linux-vm'. These are shared with ;; the host over 9p. @@ -103,21 +110,23 @@ (type "9p") (needed-for-boot? #t) (flags '(read-only)) - (options "trans=virtio,cache=loose") + (options (format #f "trans=virtio,cache=loose,msize=~a" + %default-msize-value)) (check? #f)) (file-system (mount-point "/xchg") (device "xchg") (type "9p") (needed-for-boot? #t) - (options "trans=virtio") + (options (format #f "trans=virtio,msize=~a" %default-msize-value)) (check? #f)) (file-system (mount-point "/tmp") (device "tmp") (type "9p") (needed-for-boot? #t) - (options "trans=virtio,cache=loose") + (options (format #f "trans=virtio,cache=loose,msize=~a" + %default-msize-value)) (check? #f)))) (define not-config? @@ -581,7 +590,8 @@ the operating system." (type "9p") (flags (if writable? '() '(read-only))) (options (string-append "trans=virtio" - (if writable? "" ",cache=loose"))) + (if writable? "" ",cache=loose") + ",msize=" (number->string %default-msize-value))) (check? #f) (create-mount-point? #t))))) |