Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] virtio-blk: add x-data-plane=on|off performance feature

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:19:06PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The virtio-blk-data-plane feature is easy to integrate into
> hw/virtio-blk.c.  The data plane can be started and stopped similar to
> vhost-net.
> 
> Users can take advantage of the virtio-blk-data-plane feature using the
> new -device virtio-blk-pci,x-data-plane=on property.
> 
> The x-data-plane name was chosen because at this stage the feature is
> experimental and likely to see changes in the future.
> 
> If the VM configuration does not support virtio-blk-data-plane an error
> message is printed.  Although we could fall back to regular virtio-blk,
> I prefer the explicit approach since it prompts the user to fix their
> configuration if they want the performance benefit of
> virtio-blk-data-plane.
> 
> Limitations:
>  * Only format=raw is supported
>  * Live migration is not supported
>  * Block jobs, hot unplug, and other operations fail with -EBUSY
>  * I/O throttling limits are ignored
>  * Only Linux hosts are supported due to Linux AIO usage
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>


Would be very interested in learning about the performance
impact of this. How does this compare to current model and
to vhost-blk?


> ---
>  hw/virtio-blk.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  hw/virtio-blk.h |  1 +
>  hw/virtio-pci.c |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/virtio-blk.c b/hw/virtio-blk.c
> index e25cc96..7f6004e 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-blk.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio-blk.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
>  #include "hw/block-common.h"
>  #include "blockdev.h"
>  #include "virtio-blk.h"
> +#include "hw/dataplane/virtio-blk.h"
> +#include "migration.h"
>  #include "scsi-defs.h"
>  #ifdef __linux__
>  # include <scsi/sg.h>
> @@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ typedef struct VirtIOBlock
>      VirtIOBlkConf *blk;
>      unsigned short sector_mask;
>      DeviceState *qdev;
> +    VirtIOBlockDataPlane *dataplane;
> +    Error *migration_blocker;
>  } VirtIOBlock;
>  
>  static VirtIOBlock *to_virtio_blk(VirtIODevice *vdev)
> @@ -407,6 +411,14 @@ static void virtio_blk_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
>          .num_writes = 0,
>      };
>  
> +    /* Some guests kick before setting VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK so start
> +     * dataplane here instead of waiting for .set_status().
> +     */
> +    if (s->dataplane) {
> +        virtio_blk_data_plane_start(s->dataplane);
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
>      while ((req = virtio_blk_get_request(s))) {
>          virtio_blk_handle_request(req, &mrb);
>      }
> @@ -446,8 +458,13 @@ static void virtio_blk_dma_restart_cb(void *opaque, int running,
>  {
>      VirtIOBlock *s = opaque;
>  
> -    if (!running)
> +    if (!running) {
> +        /* qemu_drain_all() doesn't know about data plane, quiesce here */
> +        if (s->dataplane) {
> +            virtio_blk_data_plane_drain(s->dataplane);
> +        }
>          return;
> +    }
>  
>      if (!s->bh) {
>          s->bh = qemu_bh_new(virtio_blk_dma_restart_bh, s);
> @@ -538,6 +555,10 @@ static void virtio_blk_set_status(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t status)
>      VirtIOBlock *s = to_virtio_blk(vdev);
>      uint32_t features;
>  
> +    if (s->dataplane && !(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER)) {
> +        virtio_blk_data_plane_stop(s->dataplane);
> +    }
> +
>      if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK)) {
>          return;
>      }
> @@ -604,6 +625,7 @@ VirtIODevice *virtio_blk_init(DeviceState *dev, VirtIOBlkConf *blk)
>  {
>      VirtIOBlock *s;
>      static int virtio_blk_id;
> +    int fd = -1;
>  
>      if (!blk->conf.bs) {
>          error_report("drive property not set");
> @@ -619,6 +641,21 @@ VirtIODevice *virtio_blk_init(DeviceState *dev, VirtIOBlkConf *blk)
>          return NULL;
>      }
>  
> +    if (blk->data_plane) {
> +        if (blk->scsi) {
> +            error_report("device is incompatible with x-data-plane, "
> +                         "use scsi=off");
> +            return NULL;
> +        }
> +
> +        fd = raw_get_aio_fd(blk->conf.bs);
> +        if (fd < 0) {
> +            error_report("drive is incompatible with x-data-plane, "
> +                         "use format=raw,cache=none,aio=native");
> +            return NULL;
> +        }
> +    }
> +
>      s = (VirtIOBlock *)virtio_common_init("virtio-blk", VIRTIO_ID_BLOCK,
>                                            sizeof(struct virtio_blk_config),
>                                            sizeof(VirtIOBlock));
> @@ -636,6 +673,17 @@ VirtIODevice *virtio_blk_init(DeviceState *dev, VirtIOBlkConf *blk)
>  
>      s->vq = virtio_add_queue(&s->vdev, 128, virtio_blk_handle_output);
>  
> +    if (fd >= 0) {
> +        s->dataplane = virtio_blk_data_plane_create(&s->vdev, fd);
> +
> +        /* Prevent block operations that conflict with data plane thread */
> +        bdrv_set_in_use(s->bs, 1);
> +
> +        error_setg(&s->migration_blocker,
> +                   "x-data-plane does not support migration");
> +        migrate_add_blocker(s->migration_blocker);
> +    }
> +
>      qemu_add_vm_change_state_handler(virtio_blk_dma_restart_cb, s);
>      s->qdev = dev;
>      register_savevm(dev, "virtio-blk", virtio_blk_id++, 2,
> @@ -652,6 +700,15 @@ VirtIODevice *virtio_blk_init(DeviceState *dev, VirtIOBlkConf *blk)
>  void virtio_blk_exit(VirtIODevice *vdev)
>  {
>      VirtIOBlock *s = to_virtio_blk(vdev);
> +
> +    if (s->dataplane) {
> +        migrate_del_blocker(s->migration_blocker);
> +        error_free(s->migration_blocker);
> +        bdrv_set_in_use(s->bs, 0);
> +        virtio_blk_data_plane_destroy(s->dataplane);
> +        s->dataplane = NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      unregister_savevm(s->qdev, "virtio-blk", s);
>      blockdev_mark_auto_del(s->bs);
>      virtio_cleanup(vdev);
> diff --git a/hw/virtio-blk.h b/hw/virtio-blk.h
> index f0740d0..53d7971 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-blk.h
> +++ b/hw/virtio-blk.h
> @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct VirtIOBlkConf
>      char *serial;
>      uint32_t scsi;
>      uint32_t config_wce;
> +    uint32_t data_plane;
>  };
>  
>  #define DEFINE_VIRTIO_BLK_FEATURES(_state, _field) \
> diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio-pci.c
> index 9603150..401f5ea 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-pci.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio-pci.c
> @@ -862,6 +862,9 @@ static Property virtio_blk_properties[] = {
>  #endif
>      DEFINE_PROP_BIT("config-wce", VirtIOPCIProxy, blk.config_wce, 0, true),
>      DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", VirtIOPCIProxy, flags, VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT, true),
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_DATA_PLANE
> +    DEFINE_PROP_BIT("x-data-plane", VirtIOPCIProxy, blk.data_plane, 0, false),
> +#endif
>      DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vectors", VirtIOPCIProxy, nvectors, 2),
>      DEFINE_VIRTIO_BLK_FEATURES(VirtIOPCIProxy, host_features),
>      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
> -- 
> 1.8.0