From fce225471128c4a5246342b3aa1b7e53a8066211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 23:31:52 +0200
Subject: vm: Use "cache=loose" for all 9p mounts.

This significantly improves read throughput when running things like
"guix hash -r ...".

* gnu/system/vm.scm (%linux-vm-file-systems): Add 'flags' for "store".
Add "cache=loose" to every file system.
---
 gnu/system/vm.scm | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'gnu/system')

diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index 435501d726..a1b595d45d 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -99,21 +99,28 @@
           (device "store")
           (type "9p")
           (needed-for-boot? #t)
-          (options "trans=virtio")
+          (flags '(read-only))
+          (options "trans=virtio,cache=loose")
           (check? #f))
+
+        ;; The 9p documentation says that cache=loose is "intended for
+        ;; exclusive, read-only mounts", without additional details.  In
+        ;; practice it seems to work well for these, and it's much faster than
+        ;; the default cache=none, especially when copying and registering
+        ;; store items.
         (file-system
           (mount-point "/xchg")
           (device "xchg")
           (type "9p")
           (needed-for-boot? #t)
-          (options "trans=virtio")
+          (options "trans=virtio,cache=loose")
           (check? #f))
         (file-system
           (mount-point "/tmp")
           (device "tmp")
           (type "9p")
           (needed-for-boot? #t)
-          (options "trans=virtio")
+          (options "trans=virtio,cache=loose")
           (check? #f))))
 
 (define not-config?
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