linux-kernel - Re: Increased memory usage with scsi-mq

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Date:   Sat, 5 Aug 2017 10:27:04 +0100
From:   "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        pbonzini@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Increased memory usage with scsi-mq

On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 10:44:36AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 10:00:47PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I read your slides about scsi-mq and it seems like a significant
> > benefit to large machines, but could the out of the box defaults be
> > made more friendly for small memory machines?
> 
> The default inumber of queues and queue depth and thus memory usage is
> set by the LLDD.
> 
> Try to reduce the can_queue value in virtio_scsi and/or make sure
> you use the single queue variant in your VM (which should be tunable
> in qemu).

Thanks, this is interesting.

Virtio-scsi seems to have a few settable parameters that might be
related to this:

  DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("num_queues", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.num_queues, 1),
  DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("max_sectors", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.max_sectors,
                                                0xFFFF),
  DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("cmd_per_lun", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.cmd_per_lun,
                                                128),

Unfortunately (assuming I'm setting them right - see below), none of
them have any effect on the number of disks that I can add to the VM.

I am testing them by placing them in the ‘-device virtio-scsi-pci’
parameter, ie. as a property of the controller, not a property of the
LUN, eg:

    -device virtio-scsi-pci,cmd_per_lun=32,id=scsi \
    -drive file=/home/rjones/d/libguestfs/tmp/libguestfshXImTv/scratch.1,cache=unsafe,format=raw,id=hd0,if=none \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0 \

The debugging output is a bit too large to attach to this email, but I
have placed it at the link below.  It contains (if you scroll down a
bit) the full qemu command line and full kernel output.

  http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz1478201-log.txt

I can add some extra debugging into the kernel if you like.  Just
point me to the right place.

Rich.

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