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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify |
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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:36:53 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:54:20PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 12.12.2010 16:02, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> > Virtqueue notify is currently handled synchronously in userspace virtio.
> > This
> > prevents the vcpu from executing guest code while hardware emulation code
> > handles the notify.
> >
> > On systems that support KVM, the ioeventfd mechanism can be used to make
> > virtqueue notify a lightweight exit by deferring hardware emulation to the
> > iothread and allowing the VM to continue execution. This model is similar
> > to
> > how vhost receives virtqueue notifies.
> >
> > The result of this change is improved performance for userspace virtio
> > devices.
> > Virtio-blk throughput increases especially for multithreaded scenarios and
> > virtio-net transmit throughput increases substantially.
> >
> > Some virtio devices are known to have guest drivers which expect a notify
> > to be
> > processed synchronously and spin waiting for completion. Only enable
> > ioeventfd
> > for virtio-blk and virtio-net for now.
> >
> > Care must be taken not to interfere with vhost-net, which uses host
> > notifiers. If the set_host_notifier() API is used by a device
> > virtio-pci will disable virtio-ioeventfd and let the device deal with
> > host notifiers as it wishes.
> >
> > After migration and on VM change state (running/paused) virtio-ioeventfd
> > will enable/disable itself.
> >
> > * VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK -> enable virtio-ioeventfd
> > * !VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK -> disable virtio-ioeventfd
> > * virtio_pci_set_host_notifier() -> disable virtio-ioeventfd
> > * vm_change_state(running=0) -> disable virtio-ioeventfd
> > * vm_change_state(running=1) -> enable virtio-ioeventfd
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
>
> On current git master I'm getting hangs when running iozone on a
> virtio-blk disk. "Hang" means that it's not responsive any more and has
> 100% CPU consumption.
>
> I bisected the problem to this patch. Any ideas?
>
> Kevin
Does it help if you set ioeventfd=off on command line?
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Kevin Wolf, 2011/01/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Kevin Wolf, 2011/01/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2011/01/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Kevin Wolf, 2011/01/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2011/01/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2011/01/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2011/01/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2011/01/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2011/01/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2011/01/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/4] virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify, Anthony Liguori, 2011/01/25