[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/9pfs: Use ioeventfd for 9p

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/9pfs: Use ioeventfd for 9p

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

With ioeventfd:
[root@qemu-img-64 storage]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/testx bs=8k count=131072 oflag=direct
131072+0 records in
131072+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 26.767 s, 40.1 MB/s

Without:
[root@qemu-img-64 storage]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/testx bs=8k count=131072 oflag=direct
131072+0 records in
131072+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 65.3361 s, 16.4 MB/s

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c |    2 ++
 hw/virtio-pci.c            |    5 -----
 hw/virtio-pci.h            |    5 +++++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c
index 513e181..e5b68da 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ static PCIDeviceInfo virtio_9p_info = {
     .revision  = VIRTIO_PCI_ABI_VERSION,
     .class_id  = 0x2,
     .qdev.props = (Property[]) {
+        DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", VirtIOPCIProxy, flags,
+                        VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT, true),
         DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vectors", VirtIOPCIProxy, nvectors, 2),
         DEFINE_VIRTIO_COMMON_FEATURES(VirtIOPCIProxy, host_features),
         DEFINE_PROP_STRING("mount_tag", VirtIOPCIProxy, fsconf.tag),
diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio-pci.c
index df27c19..ca5923c 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-pci.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-pci.c
@@ -83,11 +83,6 @@
 /* Flags track per-device state like workarounds for quirks in older guests. */
 #define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_BUS_MASTER_BUG  (1 << 0)
 
-/* Performance improves when virtqueue kick processing is decoupled from the
- * vcpu thread using ioeventfd for some devices. */
-#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT 1
-#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD   (1 << VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT)
-
 /* QEMU doesn't strictly need write barriers since everything runs in
  * lock-step.  We'll leave the calls to wmb() in though to make it obvious for
  * KVM or if kqemu gets SMP support.
diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.h b/hw/virtio-pci.h
index 14c10f7..f8404de 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-pci.h
+++ b/hw/virtio-pci.h
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 #include "virtio-net.h"
 #include "virtio-serial.h"
 
+/* Performance improves when virtqueue kick processing is decoupled from the
+ * vcpu thread using ioeventfd for some devices. */
+#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT 1
+#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD   (1 << VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT)
+
 typedef struct {
     PCIDevice pci_dev;
     VirtIODevice *vdev;
-- 
1.7.4.1

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/9pfs: Use ioeventfd for 9p

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> With ioeventfd:
> [root@qemu-img-64 storage]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/testx bs=8k count=131072 oflag=direct
> 131072+0 records in
> 131072+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 26.767 s, 40.1 MB/s
>
> Without:
> [root@qemu-img-64 storage]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/testx bs=8k count=131072 oflag=direct
> 131072+0 records in
> 131072+0 records out
> 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 65.3361 s, 16.4 MB/s
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c |    2 ++
>  hw/virtio-pci.c            |    5 -----
>  hw/virtio-pci.h            |    5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>