linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio_blk: implement blk_mq

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Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 14:20:49 +0100
From:   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        slp@...hat.com, sgarzare@...hat.com,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio_blk: implement blk_mq_ops->poll()

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 03:38:42PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 09:22:48AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 24/05/21 16:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:13:05PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > Possible drawbacks of this approach:
> > > > 
> > > > - Hardware virtio_blk implementations may find virtqueue_disable_cb()
> > > >    expensive since it requires DMA. If such devices become popular then
> > > >    the virtio_blk driver could use a similar approach to NVMe when
> > > >    VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM is detected in the future.
> > > > 
> > > > - If a blk_poll() thread is descheduled it not only hurts polling
> > > >    performance but also delays completion of non-REQ_HIPRI requests on
> > > >    that virtqueue since vq notifications are disabled.
> > > 
> > > Yes, I think this is a dangerous configuration.  What argument exists
> > > again just using dedicated poll queues?
> > 
> > There isn't an equivalent of the admin queue in virtio-blk, which would
> > allow the guest to configure the desired number of poll queues.  The number
> > of queues is fixed.
> 
> Dedicated vqs can be used for poll only, and I understand VM needn't to know
> if the vq is polled or driven by IRQ in VM.
> 
> I tried that in v5.4, but not see obvious IOPS boost, so give up.
> 
> https://github.com/ming1/linux/commits/my_v5.4-virtio-irq-poll

Hey, that's cool. I see a lot of similarity between our patches :).

Stefan

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