Re: Increased memory usage with scsi-mq

Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-05T13:39:57Z

For now can you apply this testing patch to the guest kernel?

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
index 9be211d68b15..0cbe2c882e1c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template virtscsi_host_template_single = {
.eh_timed_out = virtscsi_eh_timed_out,
.slave_alloc = virtscsi_device_alloc,

- .can_queue = 1024,
+ .can_queue = 64,
.dma_boundary = UINT_MAX,
.use_clustering = ENABLE_CLUSTERING,
.target_alloc = virtscsi_target_alloc,
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template virtscsi_host_template_multi = {
.eh_timed_out = virtscsi_eh_timed_out,
.slave_alloc = virtscsi_device_alloc,

- .can_queue = 1024,
+ .can_queue = 64,
.dma_boundary = UINT_MAX,
.use_clustering = ENABLE_CLUSTERING,
.target_alloc = virtscsi_target_alloc,
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ static int virtscsi_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
shost->max_id = num_targets;
shost->max_channel = 0;
shost->max_cmd_len = VIRTIO_SCSI_CDB_SIZE;
- shost->nr_hw_queues = num_queues;
+ shost->nr_hw_queues = 1;

#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_F_T10_PI)) {