From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org
Subject: [PULL 5/6] vhost-user-blk-server: fix opt_io_size=1 causing severe Windows I/O degradation
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:03:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331150352.256332-6-kwolf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260331150352.256332-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
From: Max Makarov <maxpain177@gmail.com>
The QSD vhost-user-blk export sets opt_io_size=1 and min_io_size=1 in
the virtio config. These values are reported to the guest through the
VPD Block Limits page as OptimalTransferLength=1 block (512 bytes)
and OptimalTransferLengthGranularity=1 block.
Windows respects these hints and splits all I/O into ~512-byte
requests, causing ~100x sequential throughput degradation (150 MB/s
instead of 15+ GB/s). Linux is unaffected as its block layer ignores
these values.
Set both to 0 which means "not reported" per the SCSI Block Limits
VPD spec, allowing Windows to use its own optimal I/O size defaults.
Signed-off-by: Max Makarov <maxpain@linux.com>
Message-ID: <20260330193451.76037-1-maxpain@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c b/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c
index e89422bb85a..67912a3e170 100644
--- a/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c
+++ b/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c
@@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ vu_blk_initialize_config(BlockDriverState *bs,
config->blk_size = cpu_to_le32(blk_size);
config->size_max = cpu_to_le32(0);
config->seg_max = cpu_to_le32(128 - 2);
- config->min_io_size = cpu_to_le16(1);
- config->opt_io_size = cpu_to_le32(1);
+ config->min_io_size = cpu_to_le16(0);
+ config->opt_io_size = cpu_to_le32(0);
config->num_queues = cpu_to_le16(num_queues);
config->max_discard_sectors =
cpu_to_le32(VIRTIO_BLK_MAX_DISCARD_SECTORS);
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 15:03 [PULL 0/6] Block layer patches Kevin Wolf
2026-03-31 15:03 ` [PULL 1/6] ide: Fix potential assertion failure on VM stop for PIO read error Kevin Wolf
2026-03-31 15:03 ` [PULL 2/6] scsi: Don't consider LOGICAL UNIT NOT SUPPORTED guest recoverable Kevin Wolf
2026-03-31 15:03 ` [PULL 3/6] block: Fix references in bdrv_bsc_*() function comments Kevin Wolf
2026-03-31 15:03 ` [PULL 4/6] monitor: Fix deadlock in monitor_cleanup Kevin Wolf
2026-04-04 6:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-04-04 6:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-04-07 12:04 ` Kevin Wolf
2026-04-07 13:30 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-04-07 16:46 ` Kevin Wolf
2026-04-07 17:12 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-04-08 9:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2026-04-07 16:57 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-03-31 15:03 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2026-03-31 15:03 ` [PULL 6/6] block: Fix crash after setting latency historygram with single bin Kevin Wolf
2026-03-31 18:04 ` [PULL 0/6] Block layer patches Peter Maydell
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