Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] vhost-scsi: Add support for host virtualized target

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 12:36 +0800, Asias He wrote:
> Hello Nicholas,
> 

Hello Asias!

> On 09/07/2012 02:48 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> > 
> > Hello Anthony & Co,
> > 
> > This is the fourth installment to add host virtualized target support for
> > the mainline tcm_vhost fabric driver using Linux v3.6-rc into QEMU 1.3.0-rc.
> > 
> > The series is available directly from the following git branch:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/nab/qemu-kvm.git vhost-scsi-for-1.3
> > 
> > Note the code is cut against yesterday's QEMU head, and dispite the name
> > of the tree is based upon mainline qemu.org git code + has thus far been
> > running overnight with > 100K IOPs small block 4k workloads using v3.6-rc2+
> > based target code with RAMDISK_DR backstores.
> 
> Are you still seeing the performance degradation discussed in the thread
> 
>  "vhost-scsi port to v1.1.0 + MSI-X performance regression"
> 

So the performance regression reported here with QEMU v1.2-rc +
virtio-scsi ended up being related to virtio interrupts being delivered
across multiple CPUs.

After explicitly setting the IRQ affinity of the virtio0-request MSI-X
vector to a specific CPU, the small block (4k) mixed random I/O
performance jumped back up to the expected ~100K IOPs for a single LUN.

FYI, I just tried this again with the most recent QEMU v1.2.50 (v1.3-rc)
code, and both cases appear to be performing as expected once again
regardless of the explicit IRQ affinity setting.

--nab