Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 1/3] blockjob: Introduce block_job_relax_cpu

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 07/14 13:31, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 05:42:48AM +0200, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> > >>By the way, why did you choose 10 milliseconds?  That is quite long.
> > >>
> > >>If this function is called once per 10 ms disk I/O operations then we
> > >>lose 50% utilization.  1 ms or less would be reasonable.
> > 
> > From my tests, 1ms is not enough, It still hanging in guest or qmp queries.
> > 10ms give me optimal balance between bitmap scan speed and guest responsiveness.
> 
> Then I don't fully understand the bug.
> 
> Fam: can you explain why 1ms isn't enough?

In Alexandre's case, I suppose it's because the lseek is so slow that sleeping
for 1ms would still let mirror coroutine to occupy, say, 90% of CPU time, so
guest IO stutters. Perhaps we could move lseek to thread pool in the future.

Anyway, 10ms wasn't a deliberate choice, because I didn't have one. I agree in
other cases, 1ms or less should be enough.

Fam