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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:15:05 +0200
From: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To: Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
CC: <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, <felipe.franciosi@...rix.com>,
<axboe@...com>, <hch@...radead.org>, <avanzini.arianna@...il.com>,
<rafal.mielniczuk@...rix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
<jonathan.davies@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] xen/blkback: get number of hardware queues/rings
from blkfront
El 05/09/15 a les 14.39, Bob Liu ha escrit:
> Backend advertises "multi-queue-max-queues" to front, and then read back the
> final negotiated queues/rings from "multi-queue-num-queues" which is wrote by
> blkfront.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 8 ++++++++
> drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> index fd02240..b904fe05f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ module_param_named(max_persistent_grants, xen_blkif_max_pgrants, int, 0644);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_persistent_grants,
> "Maximum number of grants to map persistently");
>
> +unsigned int xenblk_max_queues;
> +module_param_named(max_queues, xenblk_max_queues, uint, 0644);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_queues,
> + "Maximum number of hardware queues per virtual disk");
> +
> /*
> * Maximum order of pages to be used for the shared ring between front and
> * backend, 4KB page granularity is used.
> @@ -1458,6 +1463,9 @@ static int __init xen_blkif_init(void)
> xen_blkif_max_ring_order = XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGE_ORDER;
> }
>
> + /* Allow as many queues as there are CPUs, by default */
> + xenblk_max_queues = num_online_cpus();
Hm, I'm not sure of the best way to set a default value for this.
Consider for example a scenario were Dom0 is limited to 2vCPUs, but DomU
has 8 vCPUs. Are we going to limit the number of queues to two? Is that
the most appropriate value from a performance PoV?
I have to admit I don't have a clear idea of a default value for this
field, and maybe the number of CPUs on the backend is indeed what works
better, but there needs to be a comment explaining the reasoning behind
this setting.
> rc = xen_blkif_interface_init();
> if (rc)
> goto failed_init;
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> index 04b8d0d..aa97ea5 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
> #define RINGREF_NAME_LEN (20)
> #define RINGREF_NAME_LEN (20)
>
> +extern unsigned int xenblk_max_queues;
This should live in blkback/common.h
> +
> struct backend_info {
> struct xenbus_device *dev;
> struct xen_blkif *blkif;
> @@ -191,11 +193,6 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
> atomic_set(&blkif->drain, 0);
> INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free);
>
> - blkif->nr_rings = 1;
> - if (xen_blkif_alloc_rings(blkif)) {
> - kmem_cache_free(xen_blkif_cachep, blkif);
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> - }
> return blkif;
> }
>
> @@ -618,6 +615,14 @@ static int xen_blkbk_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
> goto fail;
> }
>
> + /* Multi-queue: wrte how many queues backend supported. */
^ write how many queues are supported by the
backend.
> + err = xenbus_printf(XBT_NIL, dev->nodename,
> + "multi-queue-max-queues", "%u", xenblk_max_queues);
> + if (err) {
> + pr_debug("Error writing multi-queue-num-queues\n");
^ pr_warn at least.
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +
> /* setup back pointer */
> be->blkif->be = be;
>
> @@ -1008,6 +1013,7 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
> char *xspath;
> size_t xspathsize;
> const size_t xenstore_path_ext_size = 11; /* sufficient for "/queue-NNN" */
> + unsigned int requested_num_queues = 0;
>
> pr_debug("%s %s\n", __func__, dev->otherend);
>
> @@ -1035,6 +1041,26 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
> be->blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = pers_grants;
> be->blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;
>
> + /*
> + * Read the number of hardware queus from frontend.
^ queues
> + */
> + err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "multi-queue-num-queues", "%u", &requested_num_queues);
> + if (err < 0) {
> + requested_num_queues = 1;
> + } else {
> + if (requested_num_queues > xenblk_max_queues
> + || requested_num_queues == 0) {
> + /* buggy or malicious guest */
> + xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
> + "guest requested %u queues, exceeding the maximum of %u.",
> + requested_num_queues, xenblk_max_queues);
> + return -1;
> + }
> + }
> + be->blkif->nr_rings = requested_num_queues;
> + if (xen_blkif_alloc_rings(be->blkif))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> pr_info("nr_rings:%d protocol %d (%s) %s\n", be->blkif->nr_rings,
> be->blkif->blk_protocol, protocol,
> pers_grants ? "persistent grants" : "");
>
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