similar to: [PATCH v1 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

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

Hi, These 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 on virtio-blk device can 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

Hi, These 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 on virtio-blk device can 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

Hi, These 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 on virtio-blk device can 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

Hi, These 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 on virtio-blk device can 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

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:08:46AM +0800, Ming Lei 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 can be improved. > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> > --- >

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:08:46AM +0800, Ming Lei 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 can be improved. > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> > --- >

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:29:40PM +0800, Ming Lei 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 can be improved. > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> > --- >

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:29:40PM +0800, Ming Lei 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 can be improved. > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> > --- >

On 13/06/2016 11:58, Bob Liu wrote: > A guest might be migrated to other hosts with different num_queues, the > blk-core should aware of that else the reference of &vblk->vqs[qid] may be wrong. > > Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu at oracle.com> > --- > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git

On 13/06/2016 11:58, Bob Liu wrote: > A guest might be migrated to other hosts with different num_queues, the > blk-core should aware of that else the reference of &vblk->vqs[qid] may be wrong. > > Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu at oracle.com> > --- > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git

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 can be improved. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 50

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

Two patches are handling new edge cases introduced by doing DMA mappings (which can fail) in virtio core. I stumbled upon this while stress testing I/O for Protected Virtual Machines. I deliberately chose a tiny swiotlb size and have generated load with fio. With more than one virtio-blk disk in use I experienced hangs. The goal of this series is to fix those hangs. Halil Pasic (2):

Two patches are handling new edge cases introduced by doing DMA mappings (which can fail) in virtio core. I stumbled upon this while stress testing I/O for Protected Virtual Machines. I deliberately chose a tiny swiotlb size and have generated load with fio. With more than one virtio-blk disk in use I experienced hangs. The goal of this series is to fix those hangs. Halil Pasic (2):

Firstly, it isn't necessary to hold lock of vblk->vq_lock when notifying hypervisor about queued I/O. Secondly, virtqueue_notify() will cause world switch and it may take long time on some hypervisors(such as, qemu-arm), so it isn't good to hold the lock and block other vCPUs. On arm64 quad core VM(qemu-kvm), the patch can increase I/O performance a lot with VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX

Firstly, it isn't necessary to hold lock of vblk->vq_lock when notifying hypervisor about queued I/O. Secondly, virtqueue_notify() will cause world switch and it may take long time on some hypervisors(such as, qemu-arm), so it isn't good to hold the lock and block other vCPUs. On arm64 quad core VM(qemu-kvm), the patch can increase I/O performance a lot with VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX

Since the need for a special flag to support SCSI passthrough on a block device was added in May 2017 the SCSI passthrough support in virtio-blk has been disabled. It has always been a bad idea (just ask the original author..) and we have virtio-scsi for proper passthrough. The feature also never made it into the virtio 1.0 or later specifications. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at

Most virtio setups have a fairly limited number of ring entries available. Enable S/G entry merging by default to fit into less of them. This restores the behavior at time of the virtio-blk blk-mq conversion, which was changed by commit "block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging" which made the behavior optional, but didn't update the existing drivers to keep their previous