Linux Virtualization - Jun 2014 - [RFC PATCH 0/2] block: virtio-blk: support multi vq per virtio-blk

Hi,

This patches try to support multi virtual queues(multi-vq) in one
virtio-blk device, and maps each virtual queue(vq) to blk-mq's
hardware queue.

With this approach, both scalability and performance problems on
virtio-blk device get improved.

For verifying the improvement, I implements virtio-blk multi-vq over
qemu's dataplane feature, and both handling host notification
from each vq and processing host I/O are still kept in the per-device
iothread context, the changes are based on qemu v2.0.0 release, and
can be accessed from below tree:

	git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ming/qemu.git #v2.0.0-virtblk-dataplane-mq

For enabling the multi-vq feature, 'num_queues=N' need to be added into
'-device virtio-blk-pci ...' of qemu command line, and suggest to pass
'vectors=N+1' to keep one MSI irq vector per each vq, and the feature
depends on x-data-plane.

Fio(libaio, randread, iodepth=64, bs=4K, jobs=N) is run inside VM to
verify the improvement.

I just create a small quadcore VM and run fio inside the VM, and
num_queues of the virtio-blk device is set as 2, but looks the
improvement is still obvious.

1), about scalability
- without mutli-vq feature
	-- jobs=2, thoughput: 145K iops
	-- jobs=4, thoughput: 100K iops
- without mutli-vq feature
	-- jobs=2, thoughput: 186K iops
	-- jobs=4, thoughput: 199K iops

2), about thoughput
- without mutli-vq feature
	-- top thoughput: 145K iops
- with mutli-vq feature
    -- top thoughput: 199K iops

So even for one quadcore VM, if the virtqueue number is increased
from 1 to 2, both scalability and performance can get improved a
lot.

Thanks,
--
Ming Lei

Current virtio-blk spec only supports one virtual queue for transfering
data between VM and host, and inside VM all kinds of operations on
the virtual queue needs to hold one lock, so cause below problems:

	- no scalability
    - bad throughput

So this patch requests to introduce feature of VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ
so that more than one virtual queues can be used to virtio-blk
device, then above problems can be solved or eased.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
index 6d8e61c..c5a2751 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE	9	/* Writeback mode enabled after reset */
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY	10	/* Topology information is available */
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE	11	/* Writeback mode available in config */
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ		12	/* support more than one vq */
 
 #ifndef __KERNEL__
 /* Old (deprecated) name for VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE. */
@@ -77,6 +78,9 @@ struct virtio_blk_config {
 
 	/* writeback mode (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE) */
 	__u8 wce;
+
+	/* number of vqs, only available when VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ is set */
+	__u16 num_queues;
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.9.5

Firstly this patch supports more than one virtual queues for virtio-blk
device.

Secondly this patch maps the virtual queue to blk-mq's hardware queue.

With this approach, both scalability and performance problem can be improved.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index f63d358..e0d077d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 #define PART_BITS 4
 
+#define MAX_NUM_VQ 16
+
 static int major;
 static DEFINE_IDA(vd_index_ida);
 
@@ -24,8 +26,8 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *virtblk_wq;
 struct virtio_blk
 {
 	struct virtio_device *vdev;
-	struct virtqueue *vq;
-	spinlock_t vq_lock;
+	struct virtqueue *vq[MAX_NUM_VQ];
+	spinlock_t vq_lock[MAX_NUM_VQ];
 
 	/* The disk structure for the kernel. */
 	struct gendisk *disk;
@@ -47,6 +49,9 @@ struct virtio_blk
 
 	/* Ida index - used to track minor number allocations. */
 	int index;
+
+	/* num of vqs */
+	int num_vqs;
 };
 
 struct virtblk_req
@@ -133,14 +138,15 @@ static void virtblk_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
 {
 	struct virtio_blk *vblk = vq->vdev->priv;
 	bool req_done = false;
+	int qid = vq->index;
 	struct virtblk_req *vbr;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned int len;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->vq_lock[qid], flags);
 	do {
 		virtqueue_disable_cb(vq);
-		while ((vbr = virtqueue_get_buf(vblk->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
+		while ((vbr = virtqueue_get_buf(vblk->vq[qid], &len)) != NULL) {
 			blk_mq_complete_request(vbr->req);
 			req_done = true;
 		}
@@ -151,7 +157,7 @@ static void virtblk_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
 	/* In case queue is stopped waiting for more buffers. */
 	if (req_done)
 		blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues(vblk->disk->queue, true);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock[qid], flags);
 }
 
 static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *req)
@@ -160,6 +166,7 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
struct request *req)
 	struct virtblk_req *vbr = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req);
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned int num;
+	int qid = hctx->queue_num;
 	const bool last = (req->cmd_flags & REQ_END) != 0;
 	int err;
 	bool notify = false;
@@ -202,12 +209,12 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
struct request *req)
 			vbr->out_hdr.type |= VIRTIO_BLK_T_IN;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
-	err = __virtblk_add_req(vblk->vq, vbr, vbr->sg, num);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->vq_lock[qid], flags);
+	err = __virtblk_add_req(vblk->vq[qid], vbr, vbr->sg, num);
 	if (err) {
-		virtqueue_kick(vblk->vq);
+		virtqueue_kick(vblk->vq[qid]);
 		blk_mq_stop_hw_queue(hctx);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock[qid], flags);
 		/* Out of mem doesn't actually happen, since we fall back
 		 * to direct descriptors */
 		if (err == -ENOMEM || err == -ENOSPC)
@@ -215,12 +222,12 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
struct request *req)
 		return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_ERROR;
 	}
 
-	if (last && virtqueue_kick_prepare(vblk->vq))
+	if (last && virtqueue_kick_prepare(vblk->vq[qid]))
 		notify = true;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock[qid], flags);
 
 	if (notify)
-		virtqueue_notify(vblk->vq);
+		virtqueue_notify(vblk->vq[qid]);
 	return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_OK;
 }
 
@@ -377,12 +384,40 @@ static void virtblk_config_changed(struct virtio_device
*vdev)
 static int init_vq(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
 {
 	int err = 0;
+	int i;
+	vq_callback_t *callbacks[MAX_NUM_VQ];
+	const char *names[MAX_NUM_VQ];
+	unsigned short num_vqs;
+	struct virtio_device *vdev = vblk->vdev;
 
-	/* We expect one virtqueue, for output. */
-	vblk->vq = virtio_find_single_vq(vblk->vdev, virtblk_done,
"requests");
-	if (IS_ERR(vblk->vq))
-		err = PTR_ERR(vblk->vq);
+	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ))
+		err = virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ,
+				   struct virtio_blk_config, num_queues,
+				   &num_vqs);
+	else
+		num_vqs = 1;
+
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
 
+	if (num_vqs > MAX_NUM_VQ)
+		num_vqs = MAX_NUM_VQ;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < num_vqs; i++) {
+		callbacks[i] = virtblk_done;
+		names[i] = "requests";
+	}
+
+	/* Discover virtqueues and write information to configuration.  */
+	err = vdev->config->find_vqs(vdev, num_vqs, vblk->vq,
+			callbacks, names);
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < num_vqs; i++)
+		spin_lock_init(&vblk->vq_lock[i]);
+	vblk->num_vqs = num_vqs;
+out:
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -551,7 +586,6 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	err = init_vq(vblk);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_free_vblk;
-	spin_lock_init(&vblk->vq_lock);
 
 	/* FIXME: How many partitions?  How long is a piece of string? */
 	vblk->disk = alloc_disk(1 << PART_BITS);
@@ -562,7 +596,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	/* Default queue sizing is to fill the ring. */
 	if (!virtblk_queue_depth) {
-		virtblk_queue_depth = vblk->vq->num_free;
+		virtblk_queue_depth = vblk->vq[0]->num_free;
 		/* ... but without indirect descs, we use 2 descs per req */
 		if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC))
 			virtblk_queue_depth /= 2;
@@ -570,7 +604,6 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 	memset(&vblk->tag_set, 0, sizeof(vblk->tag_set));
 	vblk->tag_set.ops = &virtio_mq_ops;
-	vblk->tag_set.nr_hw_queues = 1;
 	vblk->tag_set.queue_depth = virtblk_queue_depth;
 	vblk->tag_set.numa_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
 	vblk->tag_set.flags = BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE;
@@ -578,6 +611,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		sizeof(struct virtblk_req) +
 		sizeof(struct scatterlist) * sg_elems;
 	vblk->tag_set.driver_data = vblk;
+	vblk->tag_set.nr_hw_queues = vblk->num_vqs;
 
 	err = blk_mq_alloc_tag_set(&vblk->tag_set);
 	if (err)
@@ -777,7 +811,8 @@ static const struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
 static unsigned int features[] = {
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SIZE_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY,
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI,
-	VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE, VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY, VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE, VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY, VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE,
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ,
 };
 
 static struct virtio_driver virtio_blk = {
-- 
1.7.9.5

On 06/13/2014 11:29 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patches try to support multi virtual queues(multi-vq) in one
> virtio-blk device, and maps each virtual queue(vq) to blk-mq's
> hardware queue.
> 
> With this approach, both scalability and performance problems on
> virtio-blk device get improved.
> 
> For verifying the improvement, I implements virtio-blk multi-vq over
> qemu's dataplane feature, and both handling host notification
> from each vq and processing host I/O are still kept in the per-device
> iothread context, the changes are based on qemu v2.0.0 release, and
> can be accessed from below tree:
> 
> 	git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ming/qemu.git #v2.0.0-virtblk-dataplane-mq
> 
> For enabling the multi-vq feature, 'num_queues=N' need to be added
into
> '-device virtio-blk-pci ...' of qemu command line, and suggest to
pass
> 'vectors=N+1' to keep one MSI irq vector per each vq, and the
feature
> depends on x-data-plane.
> 
> Fio(libaio, randread, iodepth=64, bs=4K, jobs=N) is run inside VM to
> verify the improvement.
> 
> I just create a small quadcore VM and run fio inside the VM, and
> num_queues of the virtio-blk device is set as 2, but looks the
> improvement is still obvious.
> 
> 1), about scalability
> - without mutli-vq feature
> 	-- jobs=2, thoughput: 145K iops
> 	-- jobs=4, thoughput: 100K iops
> - without mutli-vq feature
> 	-- jobs=2, thoughput: 186K iops
> 	-- jobs=4, thoughput: 199K iops
Awesome! I was hoping someone would do that, and make virtio-blk take
full advantage of blk-mq.

-- 
Jens Axboe

Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> writes:
> Current virtio-blk spec only supports one virtual queue for transfering
> data between VM and host, and inside VM all kinds of operations on
> the virtual queue needs to hold one lock, so cause below problems:
>
> 	- no scalability
>     - bad throughput
>
> So this patch requests to introduce feature of VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ
> so that more than one virtual queues can be used to virtio-blk
> device, then above problems can be solved or eased.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
> index 6d8e61c..c5a2751 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_blk.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE	9	/* Writeback mode enabled after reset */
>  #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY	10	/* Topology information is available */
>  #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE	11	/* Writeback mode available in config
*/
> +#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ		12	/* support more than one vq */
>  
>  #ifndef __KERNEL__
>  /* Old (deprecated) name for VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE. */
> @@ -77,6 +78,9 @@ struct virtio_blk_config {
>  
>  	/* writeback mode (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE) */
>  	__u8 wce;
> +
> +	/* number of vqs, only available when VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ is set */
> +	__u16 num_queues;
>  } __attribute__((packed));
Hmm, please pad this like so:

        __u8 unused;

        __u16 num_queues;

That avoids weird alignment.

Thanks,
Rusty.

Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> writes:
> +	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ))
> +		err = virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ,
> +				   struct virtio_blk_config, num_queues,
> +				   &num_vqs);
> +	else
> +		num_vqs = 1;
This is redundant: virtio_cread_feature() checks the feature.

So, either:
        if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ))
                virtio_cread(vdev, struct virtio_blk_config, num_queues,
          		     &num_vqs);
        else
                num_vqs = 1;

Or:
	err = virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ,
			   struct virtio_blk_config, num_queues,
			   &num_vqs);
        if (err)
                num_vqs = 1;

Otherwise, the patch looks pretty straight-forward.

Cheers,
Rusty.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
wrote:
> Firstly this patch supports more than one virtual queues for virtio-blk
> device.
>
> Secondly this patch maps the virtual queue to blk-mq's hardware queue.
>
> With this approach, both scalability and performance problem can be
improved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   75
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index f63d358..e0d077d 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
>
>  #define PART_BITS 4
>
> +#define MAX_NUM_VQ 16
It would be nice to allocate virtqueues dynamically instead of
hardcoding the limit.  virtio-scsi also allocates virtqueues
dynamically.

Stefan