Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] block: virtio-blk: support multi vq per virtio-blk

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2014-06-25 20:08, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches try to support multi virtual queues(multi-vq) in one
> virtio-blk device, and maps each virtual queue(vq) to blk-mq's
> hardware queue.
>
> With this approach, both scalability and performance on virtio-blk
> device can get improved.
>
> For verifying the improvement, I implements virtio-blk multi-vq over
> qemu's dataplane feature, and both handling host notification
> from each vq and processing host I/O are still kept in the per-device
> iothread context, the change is based on qemu v2.0.0 release, and
> can be accessed from below tree:
>
> 	git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ming/qemu.git #v2.0.0-virtblk-mq.1
>
> For enabling the multi-vq feature, 'num_queues=N' need to be added into
> '-device virtio-blk-pci ...' of qemu command line, and suggest to pass
> 'vectors=N+1' to keep one MSI irq vector per each vq, and the feature
> depends on x-data-plane.
>
> Fio(libaio, randread, iodepth=64, bs=4K, jobs=N) is run inside VM to
> verify the improvement.
>
> I just create a small quadcore VM and run fio inside the VM, and
> num_queues of the virtio-blk device is set as 2, but looks the
> improvement is still obvious.
>
> 1), about scalability
> - without mutli-vq feature
> 	-- jobs=2, thoughput: 145K iops
> 	-- jobs=4, thoughput: 100K iops
> - with mutli-vq feature
> 	-- jobs=2, thoughput: 193K iops
> 	-- jobs=4, thoughput: 202K iops
>
> 2), about thoughput
> - without mutli-vq feature
> 	-- thoughput: 145K iops
> - with mutli-vq feature
> 	-- thoughput: 202K iops

Of these numbers, I think it's important to highlight that the 2 thread 
case is 33% faster and the 2 -> 4 thread case scales linearly (100%) 
while the pre-patch case sees negative scaling going from 2 -> 4 threads 
(-39%).

I haven't run your patches yet, but from looking at the code, it looks 
good. It's pretty straightforward. See feel free to add my reviewed-by.

Rusty, do you want to ack this (and I'll slurp it up for 3.17) or take 
this yourself? Or something else?


-- 
Jens Axboe