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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2023-09-13 16:00:44 -0400
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2023-10-31 15:42:14 +0100
commit84d61e5f36a73ed24742b7c7cf7b811e456dd024 (patch)
tree420c313770c60a0f9aaa2487b296c6883535b4b0 /hw/virtio/virtio.c
parent433fcea40c31ff355f84da22a46977c2a1b596c3 (diff)
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virtio: use defer_call() in virtio_irqfd_notify()
virtio-blk and virtio-scsi invoke virtio_irqfd_notify() to send Used
Buffer Notifications from an IOThread. This involves an eventfd
write(2) syscall. Calling this repeatedly when completing multiple I/O
requests in a row is wasteful.

Use the defer_call() API to batch together virtio_irqfd_notify() calls
made during thread pool (aio=threads), Linux AIO (aio=native), and
io_uring (aio=io_uring) completion processing.

Behavior is unchanged for emulated devices that do not use
defer_call_begin()/defer_call_end() since defer_call() immediately
invokes the callback when called outside a
defer_call_begin()/defer_call_end() region.

fio rw=randread bs=4k iodepth=64 numjobs=8 IOPS increases by ~9% with a
single IOThread and 8 vCPUs. iodepth=1 decreases by ~1% but this could
be noise. Detailed performance data and configuration specifics are
available here:
https://gitlab.com/stefanha/virt-playbooks/-/tree/blk_io_plug-irqfd

This duplicates the BH that virtio-blk uses for batching. The next
commit will remove it.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230913200045.1024233-4-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/virtio/virtio.c')
-rw-r--r--hw/virtio/virtio.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index fb24bc927b..e5105571cf 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-commands-virtio.h"
 #include "trace.h"
+#include "qemu/defer-call.h"
 #include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "qemu/log.h"
 #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
@@ -2445,6 +2446,16 @@ static bool virtio_should_notify(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
     }
 }
 
+/* Batch irqs while inside a defer_call_begin()/defer_call_end() section */
+static void virtio_notify_irqfd_deferred_fn(void *opaque)
+{
+    EventNotifier *notifier = opaque;
+    VirtQueue *vq = container_of(notifier, VirtQueue, guest_notifier);
+
+    trace_virtio_notify_irqfd_deferred_fn(vq->vdev, vq);
+    event_notifier_set(notifier);
+}
+
 void virtio_notify_irqfd(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
 {
     WITH_RCU_READ_LOCK_GUARD() {
@@ -2471,7 +2482,7 @@ void virtio_notify_irqfd(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
      * to an atomic operation.
      */
     virtio_set_isr(vq->vdev, 0x1);
-    event_notifier_set(&vq->guest_notifier);
+    defer_call(virtio_notify_irqfd_deferred_fn, &vq->guest_notifier);
 }
 
 static void virtio_irq(VirtQueue *vq)