Asias He <as...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 09/25/2012 10:36 AM, Asias He wrote:
>> This reduces unnecessary interrupts that host could send to guest while
>> guest is in the progress of irq handling.
>> 
>> If one vcpu is handling the irq, while another interrupt comes, in
>> handle_edge_irq(), the guest will mask the interrupt via mask_msi_irq()
>> which is a very heavy operation that goes all the way down to host.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Asias He <as...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>
> Here are some performance numbers on qemu:

I assume this is with qemu using kvm, not qemu in soft emulation? :)

> Before:
> -------------------------------------
>   seq-read  : io=0 B, bw=269730KB/s, iops=67432 , runt= 62200msec
>   seq-write : io=0 B, bw=339716KB/s, iops=84929 , runt= 49386msec
>   rand-read : io=0 B, bw=270435KB/s, iops=67608 , runt= 62038msec
>   rand-write: io=0 B, bw=354436KB/s, iops=88608 , runt= 47335msec
>     clat (usec): min=101 , max=138052 , avg=14822.09, stdev=11771.01
>     clat (usec): min=96 , max=81543 , avg=11798.94, stdev=7735.60
>     clat (usec): min=128 , max=140043 , avg=14835.85, stdev=11765.33
>     clat (usec): min=109 , max=147207 , avg=11337.09, stdev=5990.35
>   cpu          : usr=15.93%, sys=60.37%, ctx=7764972, majf=0, minf=54
>   cpu          : usr=32.73%, sys=120.49%, ctx=7372945, majf=0, minf=1
>   cpu          : usr=18.84%, sys=58.18%, ctx=7775420, majf=0, minf=1
>   cpu          : usr=24.20%, sys=59.85%, ctx=8307886, majf=0, minf=0
>   vdb: ios=8389107/8368136, merge=0/0, ticks=19457874/14616506,
> in_queue=34206098, util=99.68%
>  43: interrupt in total: 887320
> fio --exec_prerun="echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" --group_reporting
> --ioscheduler=noop --thread --bs=4k --size=512MB --direct=1 --numjobs=16
> --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --loops=3 --ramp_time=0
> --filename=/dev/vdb --name=seq-read --stonewall --rw=read
> --name=seq-write --stonewall --rw=write --name=rnd-read --stonewall
> --rw=randread --name=rnd-write --stonewall --rw=randwrite
>
> After:
> -------------------------------------
>   seq-read  : io=0 B, bw=309503KB/s, iops=77375 , runt= 54207msec
>   seq-write : io=0 B, bw=448205KB/s, iops=112051 , runt= 37432msec
>   rand-read : io=0 B, bw=311254KB/s, iops=77813 , runt= 53902msec
>   rand-write: io=0 B, bw=377152KB/s, iops=94287 , runt= 44484msec
>     clat (usec): min=81 , max=90588 , avg=12946.06, stdev=9085.94
>     clat (usec): min=57 , max=72264 , avg=8967.97, stdev=5951.04
>     clat (usec): min=29 , max=101046 , avg=12889.95, stdev=9067.91
>     clat (usec): min=52 , max=106152 , avg=10660.56, stdev=4778.19
>   cpu          : usr=15.05%, sys=57.92%, ctx=7710941, majf=0, minf=54
>   cpu          : usr=26.78%, sys=101.40%, ctx=7387891, majf=0, minf=2
>   cpu          : usr=19.03%, sys=58.17%, ctx=7681976, majf=0, minf=8
>   cpu          : usr=24.65%, sys=58.34%, ctx=8442632, majf=0, minf=4
>   vdb: ios=8389086/8361888, merge=0/0, ticks=17243780/12742010,
> in_queue=30078377, util=99.59%
>  43: interrupt in total: 1259639
> fio --exec_prerun="echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" --group_reporting
> --ioscheduler=noop --thread --bs=4k --size=512MB --direct=1 --numjobs=16
> --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --loops=3 --ramp_time=0
> --filename=/dev/vdb --name=seq-read --stonewall --rw=read
> --name=seq-write --stonewall --rw=write --name=rnd-read --stonewall
> --rw=randread --name=rnd-write --stonewall --rw=randwrite
>
>>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>> index 53b81d5..0bdde8f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
>> @@ -274,15 +274,18 @@ static void virtblk_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
>>      unsigned int len;
>>  
>>      spin_lock_irqsave(vblk->disk->queue->queue_lock, flags);
>> -    while ((vbr = virtqueue_get_buf(vblk->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
>> -            if (vbr->bio) {
>> -                    virtblk_bio_done(vbr);
>> -                    bio_done = true;
>> -            } else {
>> -                    virtblk_request_done(vbr);
>> -                    req_done = true;
>> +    do {
>> +            virtqueue_disable_cb(vq);
>> +            while ((vbr = virtqueue_get_buf(vblk->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
>> +                    if (vbr->bio) {
>> +                            virtblk_bio_done(vbr);
>> +                            bio_done = true;
>> +                    } else {
>> +                            virtblk_request_done(vbr);
>> +                            req_done = true;
>> +                    }
>>              }
>> -    }
>> +    } while (!virtqueue_enable_cb(vq));
>>      /* In case queue is stopped waiting for more buffers. */
>>      if (req_done)
>>              blk_start_queue(vblk->disk->queue);

Fascinating.  Please just confirm that VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX is
enabled?

I forgot about the cool hack which MST put in to defer event updates
using disable_cb/enable_cb.

Applied!
Rusty.
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