On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:14:14PM +0300, Denis Plotnikov wrote: > The goal is to reduce the amount of requests issued by a guest on > 1M reads/writes. This rises the performance up to 4% on that kind of > disk access pattern. > > The maximum chunk size to be used for the guest disk accessing is > limited with seg_max parameter, which represents the max amount of > pices in the scatter-geather list in one guest disk request. > > Since seg_max is virqueue_size dependent, increasing the virtqueue > size increases seg_max, which, in turn, increases the maximum size > of data to be read/write from a guest disk. > > More details in the original problem statment: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg03721.html > > Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <[email protected]> > --- > hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 4 ++-- > hw/core/machine.c | 2 ++ > hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c | 4 ++-- > 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c > index 09f46ed85f..6df3a7a6df 100644 > --- a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c > +++ b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c > @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ static void virtio_blk_update_config(VirtIODevice *vdev, > uint8_t *config) > memset(&blkcfg, 0, sizeof(blkcfg)); > virtio_stq_p(vdev, &blkcfg.capacity, capacity); > virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.seg_max, > - s->conf.seg_max_adjust ? s->conf.queue_size - 2 : 128 - 2); > + s->conf.seg_max_adjust ? s->conf.queue_size - 2 : 256 - 2);
This value must not change on older machine types. So does this patch
need to turn seg-max-adjust *on* in hw_compat_4_2 so that old machine
types get 126 instead of 254?
> virtio_stw_p(vdev, &blkcfg.geometry.cylinders, conf->cyls);
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.blk_size, blk_size);
> virtio_stw_p(vdev, &blkcfg.min_io_size, conf->min_io_size / blk_size);
> @@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ static Property virtio_blk_properties[] = {
> DEFINE_PROP_BIT("request-merging", VirtIOBlock, conf.request_merging, 0,
> true),
> DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("num-queues", VirtIOBlock, conf.num_queues, 1),
> - DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("queue-size", VirtIOBlock, conf.queue_size, 128),
> + DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("queue-size", VirtIOBlock, conf.queue_size, 256),
> DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("seg-max-adjust", VirtIOBlock, conf.seg_max_adjust,
> true),
> DEFINE_PROP_LINK("iothread", VirtIOBlock, conf.iothread, TYPE_IOTHREAD,
> IOThread *),
> diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
> index 2501b540ec..3427d6cf4c 100644
> --- a/hw/core/machine.c
> +++ b/hw/core/machine.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
> #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
>
> GlobalProperty hw_compat_4_2[] = {
> + { "virtio-blk-device", "queue-size", "128"},
> + { "virtio-scsi-device", "virtqueue_size", "128"},
> { "virtio-blk-device", "x-enable-wce-if-config-wce", "off" },
> { "virtio-blk-device", "seg-max-adjust", "off"},
> { "virtio-scsi-device", "seg_max_adjust", "off"},
> diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
> index 3b61563609..b38f50a429 100644
> --- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
> +++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
> @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ static void virtio_scsi_get_config(VirtIODevice *vdev,
>
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &scsiconf->num_queues, s->conf.num_queues);
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &scsiconf->seg_max,
> - s->conf.seg_max_adjust ? s->conf.virtqueue_size - 2 : 128 -
> 2);
> + s->conf.seg_max_adjust ? s->conf.virtqueue_size - 2 : 256 -
> 2);
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &scsiconf->max_sectors, s->conf.max_sectors);
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &scsiconf->cmd_per_lun, s->conf.cmd_per_lun);
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &scsiconf->event_info_size, sizeof(VirtIOSCSIEvent));
> @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static void virtio_scsi_device_unrealize(DeviceState
> *dev, Error **errp)
> static Property virtio_scsi_properties[] = {
> DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("num_queues", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.num_queues,
> 1),
> DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("virtqueue_size", VirtIOSCSI,
> - parent_obj.conf.virtqueue_size,
> 128),
> + parent_obj.conf.virtqueue_size,
> 256),
> DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("seg_max_adjust", VirtIOSCSI,
> parent_obj.conf.seg_max_adjust, true),
> DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("max_sectors", VirtIOSCSI,
> parent_obj.conf.max_sectors,
> --
> 2.17.0
>
>
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