qemu/0003-virtio-scsi-don-t-waste-CPU-polling-the-event-virtqu.patch
2022-11-16 11:33:42 +00:00

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From 5a595325d84fe48fcef921b0810073906ff9284b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 09:27:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] virtio-scsi: don't waste CPU polling the event virtqueue
The virtio-scsi event virtqueue is not emptied by its handler function.
This is typical for rx virtqueues where the device uses buffers when
some event occurs (e.g. a packet is received, an error condition
happens, etc).
Polling non-empty virtqueues wastes CPU cycles. We are not waiting for
new buffers to become available, we are waiting for an event to occur,
so it's a misuse of CPU resources to poll for buffers.
Introduce the new virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll() API,
which is identical to virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier() except
that it does not poll the virtqueue.
Before this patch the following command-line consumed 100% CPU in the
IOThread polling and calling virtio_scsi_handle_event():
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -M accel=kvm -m 1G -cpu host \
--object iothread,id=iothread0 \
--device virtio-scsi-pci,iothread=iothread0 \
--blockdev file,filename=test.img,aio=native,cache.direct=on,node-name=drive0 \
--device scsi-hd,drive=drive0
After this patch CPU is no longer wasted.
Reported-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20220427143541.119567-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 38738f7dbbda90fbc161757b7f4be35b52205552)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c | 2 +-
hw/virtio/virtio.c | 13 +++++++++++++
include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
index 29575cbaf6..8bb6e6acfc 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ int virtio_scsi_dataplane_start(VirtIODevice *vdev)
aio_context_acquire(s->ctx);
virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(vs->ctrl_vq, s->ctx);
- virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(vs->event_vq, s->ctx);
+ virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll(vs->event_vq, s->ctx);
for (i = 0; i < vs->conf.num_queues; i++) {
virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(vs->cmd_vqs[i], s->ctx);
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 9d637e043e..67a873f54a 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -3534,6 +3534,19 @@ void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx)
virtio_queue_host_notifier_aio_poll_end);
}
+/*
+ * Same as virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier() but without polling. Use
+ * this for rx virtqueues and similar cases where the virtqueue handler
+ * function does not pop all elements. When the virtqueue is left non-empty
+ * polling consumes CPU cycles and should not be used.
+ */
+void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx)
+{
+ aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &vq->host_notifier, true,
+ virtio_queue_host_notifier_read,
+ NULL, NULL);
+}
+
void virtio_queue_aio_detach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx)
{
aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &vq->host_notifier, true, NULL, NULL, NULL);
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index b31c4507f5..b62a35fdca 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ EventNotifier *virtio_queue_get_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq);
void virtio_queue_set_host_notifier_enabled(VirtQueue *vq, bool enabled);
void virtio_queue_host_notifier_read(EventNotifier *n);
void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx);
+void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx);
void virtio_queue_aio_detach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx);
VirtQueue *virtio_vector_first_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint16_t vector);
VirtQueue *virtio_vector_next_queue(VirtQueue *vq);
--
2.37.0.rc2