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| author | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-06-16 16:59:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-06-16 16:59:33 +0000 |
| commit | 9aba81d8eb048db908c94a3c40c25a5fde0caee6 (patch) | |
| tree | b765e7fb5e9a3c2143c68b0414e0055adb70e785 /results/classifier/118/virtual/2025586 | |
| parent | b89a938452613061c0f1f23e710281cf5c83cb29 (diff) | |
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add 18th iteration of classifier
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diff --git a/results/classifier/118/virtual/2025586 b/results/classifier/118/virtual/2025586 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ebccc768d --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/118/virtual/2025586 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +virtual: 0.942 +x86: 0.918 +device: 0.909 +performance: 0.848 +kernel: 0.791 +mistranslation: 0.776 +architecture: 0.766 +PID: 0.762 +hypervisor: 0.751 +files: 0.750 +graphic: 0.749 +KVM: 0.740 +semantic: 0.693 +VMM: 0.691 +network: 0.663 +socket: 0.650 +permissions: 0.640 +ppc: 0.609 +register: 0.609 +peripherals: 0.598 +vnc: 0.593 +debug: 0.551 +user-level: 0.549 +risc-v: 0.548 +TCG: 0.454 +arm: 0.429 +boot: 0.399 +i386: 0.377 +assembly: 0.250 + +Align the iov length to the logical block size + +[Impact] +When the logical block size of the virtual block device is smaller than the block device it is backed by on the host, +qemu encounters a situation where it needs to bounce unaligned buffers during the use of direct IO. +In the past, the logical block size happened to align with the memory page offset, leading qemu to mistakenly use the memory offset as the block size. +However, a kernel commit b1a000d3b8ec resolved this issue by separating memory alignment from the logical block size. +As a result, qemu now has an incorrect understanding of the minimum vector size. + +[Fix] +Upstream commit 25474d90aa50 fixed this issue. +========== +Author: Keith Busch <email address hidden> +CommitDate: Fri Sep 30 18:43:44 2022 +0200 + + block: use the request length for iov alignment + + An iov length needs to be aligned to the logical block size, which may + be larger than the memory alignment. + + Tested-by: Jens Axboe <email address hidden> + Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <email address hidden> + Message-Id: <email address hidden> + Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <email address hidden> + Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <email address hidden> +========== + +[Test Plan] +1. Get a ubuntu image and convert it to RAW format +wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img +qemu-img convert jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.img jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.raw +2. Set up a loop device with RAW image +losetup -b 4096 -f jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.raw +3. Get loop device number by `losetup -a` command +4. Start the virtual machine +qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -drive file=/dev/loopX,format=raw,cache=none --nographic + +[Where problems could occur] +The patch addressed the issue of misusing the memory offset as the block size. +This problem only occurred when the cache option was set to "none" and the Linux kernel being used had the commit b1a000d3b8ec. +However, it is worth noting that the patch also worked effectively with older kernels. + +[Other Info] + |