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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] mirror: double performance of the bulk stag


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] mirror: double performance of the bulk stage if the disc is full
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:21:38 +0200
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On 12/07/2016 11:36, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> 
> Mirror can do up to 16 in-flight requests, but actually on full copy
> (the whole source disk is non-zero) in-flight is always 1. This happens
> as the request is not limited in size: the data occupies maximum available
> capacity of s->buf.
> 
> The patch limits the size of the request to some artificial constant
> (1 Mb here), which is not that big or small. This effectively enables
> back parallelism in mirror code as it was designed.
> 
> The result is important: the time to migrate 10 Gb disk is reduced from
> ~350 sec to 170 sec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <address@hidden>
> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> CC: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> CC: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> CC: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> CC: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> CC: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/mirror.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
> index 4fe127e..53d3bcd 100644
> --- a/block/mirror.c
> +++ b/block/mirror.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
>  
>  #define SLICE_TIME    100000000ULL /* ns */
>  #define MAX_IN_FLIGHT 16
> -#define DEFAULT_MIRROR_BUF_SIZE   (10 << 20)
> +#define MAX_IO_SECTORS ((1 << 20) >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS) /* 1 Mb */
> +#define DEFAULT_MIRROR_BUF_SIZE \
> +    (MAX_IN_FLIGHT * MAX_IO_SECTORS * BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE)
>  
>  /* The mirroring buffer is a list of granularity-sized chunks.
>   * Free chunks are organized in a list.
> @@ -387,7 +389,9 @@ static uint64_t coroutine_fn 
> mirror_iteration(MirrorBlockJob *s)
>                                            nb_chunks * sectors_per_chunk,
>                                            &io_sectors, &file);
>          if (ret < 0) {
> -            io_sectors = nb_chunks * sectors_per_chunk;
> +            io_sectors = MIN(nb_chunks * sectors_per_chunk, MAX_IO_SECTORS);
> +        } else if (ret & BDRV_BLOCK_DATA) {
> +            io_sectors = MIN(io_sectors, MAX_IO_SECTORS);
>          }
>  
>          io_sectors -= io_sectors % sectors_per_chunk;
> 

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

Thanks!



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