Re: Increased memory usage with scsi-mq

Richard W.M. Jones
2017-08-10T15:40:31Z

OK this is looking a bit better now.

With scsi-mq enabled: 175 disks
virtqueue_size=64: 318 disks *
virtqueue_size=16: 775 disks *
With scsi-mq disabled: 1755 disks
* = new results

I also ran the whole libguestfs test suite with virtqueue_size=16
(with no failures shown). As this tests many different disk I/O
operations, it gives me some confidence that things generally work.

Do you have any other comments about the patches? I'm not sure I know
enough to write an intelligent commit message for the kernel patch.

Rich.

--- kernel patch ---

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
index 9be211d68b15..d6b4ff634c0d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
@@ -972,6 +972,8 @@ static int virtscsi_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
if (err)
goto virtscsi_init_failed;

+ shost->can_queue = virtqueue_get_vring_size(vscsi->req_vqs[0].vq);
+
cmd_per_lun = virtscsi_config_get(vdev, cmd_per_lun) ?: 1;
shost->cmd_per_lun = min_t(u32, cmd_per_lun, shost->can_queue);
shost->max_sectors = virtscsi_config_get(vdev, max_sectors) ?: 0xFFFF;
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 5e1b548828e6..2d7509da9f39 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct virtqueue *_vq,
}
#endif

- BUG_ON(total_sg > vq->vring.num);
BUG_ON(total_sg == 0);

head = vq->free_head;
@@ -305,8 +304,10 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct virtqueue *_vq,
* buffers, then go indirect. FIXME: tune this threshold */
if (vq->indirect && total_sg > 1 && vq->vq.num_free)
desc = alloc_indirect(_vq, total_sg, gfp);
- else
+ else {
desc = NULL;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(total_sg > vq->vring.num && !vq->indirect);
+ }

if (desc) {
/* Use a single buffer which doesn't continue */

--- qemu patch ---

diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
index eb639442d1..aadd99aad1 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
@@ -867,10 +867,10 @@ void virtio_scsi_common_realize(DeviceState *dev,
s->sense_size = VIRTIO_SCSI_SENSE_DEFAULT_SIZE;
s->cdb_size = VIRTIO_SCSI_CDB_DEFAULT_SIZE;

- s->ctrl_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE, ctrl);
- s->event_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE, evt);
+ s->ctrl_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, s->conf.virtqueue_size, ctrl);
+ s->event_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, s->conf.virtqueue_size, evt);
for (i = 0; i < s->conf.num_queues; i++) {
- s->cmd_vqs[i] = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE, cmd);
+ s->cmd_vqs[i] = virtio_add_queue(vdev, s->conf.virtqueue_size, cmd);
}
}

@@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ static void virtio_scsi_device_unrealize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)

static Property virtio_scsi_properties[] = {
DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("num_queues", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.num_queues, 1),
+ DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("virtqueue_size", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.virtqueue_size, 128),
DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("max_sectors", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.max_sectors,
0xFFFF),
DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("cmd_per_lun", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.cmd_per_lun,
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h
index de6ae5a9f6..e30a92d3e7 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ typedef struct virtio_scsi_config VirtIOSCSIConfig;

struct VirtIOSCSIConf {
uint32_t num_queues;
+ uint32_t virtqueue_size;
uint32_t max_sectors;
uint32_t cmd_per_lun;
#ifdef CONFIG_VHOST_SCSI

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