linux-kernel - Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-console downgrade the virtio-pci-blk performance

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Message-ID: <20181001114146.GA2508@work-vm>
Date:   Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:41:47 +0100
From:   "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
To:     Feng Li <lifeng1519@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        qemu-discuss@...gnu.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-console downgrade the virtio-pci-blk
 performance

* Feng Li (lifeng1519@...il.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> I found an obvious performance downgrade when virtio-console combined
> with virtio-pci-blk.
> 
> This phenomenon exists in nearly all Qemu versions and all Linux
> (CentOS7, Fedora 28, Ubuntu 18.04) distros.
> 
> This is a disk cmd:
> -drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1:3260/iqn.2016-02.com.test:system:fl-iscsi/1,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=none,aio=native
> -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1,write-cache=on
> 
> If I add "-device
> virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5  ", the virtio
> disk 4k iops (randread/randwrite) would downgrade from 60k to 40k.
> 
> In VM, if I rmmod virtio-console, the performance will back to normal.
> 
> Any idea about this issue?
> 
> I don't know this is a qemu issue or kernel issue.

It sounds odd;  can you provide more details on:
  a) The benchmark you're using.
  b) the host and the guest config (number of cpus etc)
  c) Why are you running it with iscsi back to the same host - why not
     just simplify the test back to a simple file?

Dave

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Alex
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@...hat.com / Manchester, UK