Speed up VM create with work seeds

Beat VM create wall time without changing VM semantics.

Generate a work-seed ext4 sidecar during image builds and rootfs rebuilds, then clone and resize that seed for each new VM instead of rebuilding /root from scratch. Plumb the new seed artifact through config, runtime metadata, store state, runtime-bundle defaults, doctor checks, and default-image reconciliation so older images still fall back cleanly.

Add a daemon TAP pool to keep idle bridge-attached devices warm, expose stage timing in lifecycle logs, add a create/SSH benchmark script plus Make target, and teach verify.sh that tap-pool-* devices are reusable capacity rather than cleanup leaks.

Validated with go test ./..., make build, ./verify.sh, and make bench-create ARGS="--runs 2".
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Thales Maciel 2026-03-18 21:22:12 -03:00
parent a14a80fd6b
commit c8d9a122f9
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24 changed files with 695 additions and 44 deletions

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@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ func (s *Store) migrate() error {
managed INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
artifact_dir TEXT,
rootfs_path TEXT NOT NULL,
work_seed_path TEXT,
kernel_path TEXT NOT NULL,
initrd_path TEXT,
modules_dir TEXT,
@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ func (s *Store) migrate() error {
return err
}
}
if err := ensureColumnExists(s.db, "images", "work_seed_path", "TEXT"); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}
@ -111,14 +115,15 @@ func (s *Store) UpsertImage(ctx context.Context, image model.Image) error {
defer s.writeMu.Unlock()
const query = `
INSERT INTO images (
id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, kernel_path, initrd_path,
id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, work_seed_path, kernel_path, initrd_path,
modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at
) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ON CONFLICT(id) DO UPDATE SET
name=excluded.name,
managed=excluded.managed,
artifact_dir=excluded.artifact_dir,
rootfs_path=excluded.rootfs_path,
work_seed_path=excluded.work_seed_path,
kernel_path=excluded.kernel_path,
initrd_path=excluded.initrd_path,
modules_dir=excluded.modules_dir,
@ -132,6 +137,7 @@ func (s *Store) UpsertImage(ctx context.Context, image model.Image) error {
boolToInt(image.Managed),
image.ArtifactDir,
image.RootfsPath,
image.WorkSeedPath,
image.KernelPath,
image.InitrdPath,
image.ModulesDir,
@ -145,15 +151,15 @@ func (s *Store) UpsertImage(ctx context.Context, image model.Image) error {
}
func (s *Store) GetImageByName(ctx context.Context, name string) (model.Image, error) {
return s.getImage(ctx, "SELECT id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at FROM images WHERE name = ?", name)
return s.getImage(ctx, "SELECT id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, work_seed_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at FROM images WHERE name = ?", name)
}
func (s *Store) GetImageByID(ctx context.Context, id string) (model.Image, error) {
return s.getImage(ctx, "SELECT id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at FROM images WHERE id = ?", id)
return s.getImage(ctx, "SELECT id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, work_seed_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at FROM images WHERE id = ?", id)
}
func (s *Store) ListImages(ctx context.Context) ([]model.Image, error) {
rows, err := s.db.QueryContext(ctx, "SELECT id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at FROM images ORDER BY created_at ASC")
rows, err := s.db.QueryContext(ctx, "SELECT id, name, managed, artifact_dir, rootfs_path, work_seed_path, kernel_path, initrd_path, modules_dir, packages_path, build_size, docker, created_at, updated_at FROM images ORDER BY created_at ASC")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
@ -330,6 +336,7 @@ type scanner interface {
func scanImageRow(row scanner) (model.Image, error) {
var image model.Image
var managed, docker int
var workSeedPath sql.NullString
var createdAt, updatedAt string
err := row.Scan(
&image.ID,
@ -337,6 +344,7 @@ func scanImageRow(row scanner) (model.Image, error) {
&managed,
&image.ArtifactDir,
&image.RootfsPath,
&workSeedPath,
&image.KernelPath,
&image.InitrdPath,
&image.ModulesDir,
@ -351,6 +359,7 @@ func scanImageRow(row scanner) (model.Image, error) {
}
image.Managed = managed == 1
image.Docker = docker == 1
image.WorkSeedPath = workSeedPath.String
image.CreatedAt, err = time.Parse(time.RFC3339, createdAt)
if err != nil {
return image, err
@ -417,6 +426,35 @@ func scanVMInto(row scanner) (model.VMRecord, error) {
return vm, nil
}
func ensureColumnExists(db *sql.DB, table, column, columnType string) error {
rows, err := db.Query(fmt.Sprintf("PRAGMA table_info(%s)", table))
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer rows.Close()
for rows.Next() {
var (
cid int
name string
valueType string
notNull int
defaultV sql.NullString
pk int
)
if err := rows.Scan(&cid, &name, &valueType, &notNull, &defaultV, &pk); err != nil {
return err
}
if name == column {
return nil
}
}
if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
return err
}
_, err = db.Exec(fmt.Sprintf("ALTER TABLE %s ADD COLUMN %s %s", table, column, columnType))
return err
}
func boolToInt(value bool) int {
if value {
return 1

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@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ func sampleImage(name string) model.Image {
Managed: true,
ArtifactDir: "/artifacts/" + name,
RootfsPath: "/images/" + name + ".ext4",
WorkSeedPath: "/images/" + name + ".work-seed.ext4",
KernelPath: "/kernels/" + name,
InitrdPath: "/initrd/" + name,
ModulesDir: "/modules/" + name,