virtio-blk-pci: default num_queues to -smp N

Automatically size the number of virtio-blk-pci request virtqueues to
match the number of vCPUs.  Other transports continue to default to 1
request virtqueue.

A 1:1 virtqueue:vCPU mapping ensures that completion interrupts are
handled on the same vCPU that submitted the request.  No IPI is
necessary to complete an I/O request and performance is improved.  The
maximum number of MSI-X vectors and virtqueues limit are respected.

Performance improves from 78k to 104k IOPS on a 32 vCPU guest with 101
virtio-blk-pci devices (ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1, bs=4k, rw=randread
with NVMe storage).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20200818143348.310613-7-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h
index b1334c3904..7539c2b848 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ struct virtio_blk_inhdr
     unsigned char status;
 };
 
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_AUTO_NUM_QUEUES UINT16_MAX
+
 struct VirtIOBlkConf
 {
     BlockConf conf;