From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Feng Li <lifeng1519@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-discuss@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-console downgrade the virtio-pci-blk performance
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:41:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181001114146.GA2508@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEK8JBDPNqTap-LnoBxUZh4Bj9b+VgrsPm53QAivfOsLG7wuGw@mail.gmail.com>
* Feng Li (lifeng1519@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> I found an obvious performance downgrade when virtio-console combined
> with virtio-pci-blk.
>
> This phenomenon exists in nearly all Qemu versions and all Linux
> (CentOS7, Fedora 28, Ubuntu 18.04) distros.
>
> This is a disk cmd:
> -drive file=iscsi://127.0.0.1:3260/iqn.2016-02.com.test:system:fl-iscsi/1,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=none,aio=native
> -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1,write-cache=on
>
> If I add "-device
> virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 ", the virtio
> disk 4k iops (randread/randwrite) would downgrade from 60k to 40k.
>
> In VM, if I rmmod virtio-console, the performance will back to normal.
>
> Any idea about this issue?
>
> I don't know this is a qemu issue or kernel issue.
It sounds odd; can you provide more details on:
a) The benchmark you're using.
b) the host and the guest config (number of cpus etc)
c) Why are you running it with iscsi back to the same host - why not
just simplify the test back to a simple file?
Dave
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Alex
>
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
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2018-10-01 11:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2018-10-01 14:58 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio-console downgrade the virtio-pci-blk performance Feng Li
2018-10-11 10:15 ` Feng Li
2018-10-15 18:51 ` Amit Shah
2018-10-16 2:26 ` Feng Li
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