Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers

Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers

[Anthony Liguori]

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Rusty,
> 
> currently virtio_blk uses one major number per device. While this works
> quite well on most systems it is wasteful and will exhaust major numbers
> on larger installations.
> 
> This patch allocates a major number on init and will use 16 minor numbers
> for each disk. That will allow ~64k virtio_blk disks.
>

There's are some other limitations to the number of virtio block 
devices.  For instances...

>  	sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c", virtblk_index++);

This gets bogus after 64 disks.  We also have a hard limit for 
virtio-pci based on the number of PCI slots available.  One thing I was 
considering was whether we should try to support multiple disks per 
virtio device.

Otherwise, this patch looks good to me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers

[Christian Borntraeger]

Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> There's are some other limitations to the number of virtio block 
> devices.  For instances...
> 
> >  	sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c", virtblk_index++);
> 
> This gets bogus after 64 disks.  

Right. I will fix that with an additional patch.

> We also have a hard limit for  
> virtio-pci based on the number of PCI slots available.  One thing I was 
> considering was whether we should try to support multiple disks per 
> virtio device.

What is the hard limit in the PCI name space?


Christian

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[Patch] virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz, vdaa-vdzz, vdaaa-vdzzz

[Christian Borntraeger]

Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> Right. I will fix that with an additional patch.

This patch goes on top of the minor number patch. Please let me know if
you want a merged patch:

Currently virtio_blk creates the disk name combinging "vd"  with 'a'++.
This will give strange names after vdz. I have implemented names up to 
vdzzz - inspired by the sd.c code. That should be sufficient for now.

There is one driver in the kernel (driver/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c) that
implements names from dasda-dasdzzzz allowing even more disks. Maybe 
a janitor can come up with a common implementation usable for all kind
of block device drivers.

I have tested this patch with 100 disks - seems to work.


Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: kvm/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
===================================================================
--- kvm.orig/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ kvm/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
 
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
-static unsigned char virtblk_index = 'a';
-static int major, minor;
+static int major, index;
 
 struct virtio_blk
 {
@@ -173,6 +172,11 @@ static struct block_device_operations vi
 	.getgeo = virtblk_getgeo,
 };
 
+static int index_to_minor(int index)
+{
+	return index << PART_BITS;
+}
+
 static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
 	struct virtio_blk *vblk;
@@ -180,7 +184,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_d
 	u64 cap;
 	u32 v;
 
-	if (minor >= 1 << MINORBITS)
+	if (index_to_minor(index) >= 1 << MINORBITS)
 		return -ENOSPC;
 
 	vdev->priv = vblk = kmalloc(sizeof(*vblk), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -219,13 +223,24 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_d
 		goto out_put_disk;
 	}
 
-	sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c", virtblk_index++);
+	if (index < 26) {
+		sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c", 'a' + index % 26);
+	} else if (index < (26 + 1) * 26) {
+		sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c%c",
+			'a' + index / 26 - 1, 'a' + index % 26);
+	} else {
+		const unsigned int m1 = (index / 26 - 1) / 26 - 1;
+		const unsigned int m2 = (index / 26 - 1) % 26;
+		const unsigned int m3 =  index % 26;
+		sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c%c%c",
+			'a' + m1, 'a' + m2, 'a' + m3);
+	}
+
 	vblk->disk->major = major;
-	vblk->disk->first_minor = minor;
+	vblk->disk->first_minor = index_to_minor(index);
 	vblk->disk->private_data = vblk;
 	vblk->disk->fops = &virtblk_fops;
-
-	minor += 1 << PART_BITS;
+	index++;
 
 	/* If barriers are supported, tell block layer that queue is ordered */
 	if (vdev->config->feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER))

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Re: [Patch] virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz, vdaa-vdzz, vdaaa-vdzzz

[Rusty Russell]

On Friday 01 February 2008 19:05:00 Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> > Right. I will fix that with an additional patch.
>
> This patch goes on top of the minor number patch. Please let me know if
> you want a merged patch:
>
> Currently virtio_blk creates the disk name combinging "vd"  with 'a'++.
> This will give strange names after vdz. I have implemented names up to
> vdzzz - inspired by the sd.c code. That should be sufficient for now.

Thanks, both applied.

Cheers,
Rusty.
PS.  Am on vacation now, for 4 weeks.  Will check mail only occasionally.

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Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers

[H. Peter Anvin]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Rusty,
>>
>> currently virtio_blk uses one major number per device. While this works
>> quite well on most systems it is wasteful and will exhaust major numbers
>> on larger installations.
>>
>> This patch allocates a major number on init and will use 16 minor numbers
>> for each disk. That will allow ~64k virtio_blk disks.
>>
> 
> There's are some other limitations to the number of virtio block 
> devices.  For instances...
> 
>>      sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c", virtblk_index++);
> 
> This gets bogus after 64 disks.  We also have a hard limit for 
> virtio-pci based on the number of PCI slots available.  One thing I was 
> considering was whether we should try to support multiple disks per 
> virtio device.
> 

I would much rather prefer a /dev/vd/dXpY naming scheme, similar to 
cciss and other large disk installations.

Unfortunately yet another side effect of people not habitually 
registering major numbers is that the namespace is not as well maintained.

	-hpa

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