[RFC PATCH 2/2] block: virtio-blk: support multi virt queues per virtio-blk device

[Ming Lei]

Hi Paolo,

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 18/06/2014 06:04, Ming Lei wrote:
>> For virtio-blk, I don't think it is always better to take more queues, and
>> we need to leverage below things in host side:
>>
>> - host storage top performance, generally it reaches that with more
>> than 1 jobs with libaio(suppose it is N, so basically we can use N
>> iothread per device in qemu to try to get top performance)
>>
>> - iothreads' loading(if iothreads are at full loading, increasing
>> queues doesn't help at all)
>>
>> In my test, I only use the current per-dev iothread(x-dataplane)
>> in qemu to handle 2 vqs' notification and precess all I/O from
>> the 2 vqs, and looks it can improve IOPS by ~30%.
>>
>> For virtio-scsi, the current usage doesn't make full use of blk-mq's
>> advantage too because only one vq is active at the same time, so I
>> guess the multi vqs' benefit won't be very much and I'd like to post
>> patches to support that first, then provide test data with
>> more queues(8, 16).
>
> Hi Ming Lei,
>
> would you like to repost these patches now that MQ support is in the kernel?
>
> Also, I changed my mind about moving linux-aio to AioContext.  I now
> think it's a good idea, because it limits the number of io_getevents
> syscalls. O:-)  So I would be happy to review your patches for that as well.

OK, I try to figure out a new version, and it might take a while since it is
close to festival season, :-)

Thanks,