From: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Brian Song <hibriansong@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 16/21] block/export: Add multi-threading interface
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 15:28:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250604132813.359438-17-hreitz@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250604132813.359438-1-hreitz@redhat.com>
Make BlockExportType.iothread an alternate between a single-thread
variant 'str' and a multi-threading variant '[str]'.
In contrast to the single-thread setting, the multi-threading setting
will not change the BDS's context (and so is incompatible with the
fixed-iothread setting), but instead just pass a list to the export
driver, with which it can do whatever it wants.
Currently no export driver supports multi-threading, so they all return
an error when receiving such a list.
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
---
qapi/block-export.json | 34 +++++++++++++++++---
include/block/export.h | 12 +++++--
block/export/export.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
block/export/fuse.c | 7 ++++
block/export/vduse-blk.c | 7 ++++
block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c | 8 +++++
nbd/server.c | 6 ++++
7 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qapi/block-export.json b/qapi/block-export.json
index c783e01a53..3ebad4ecef 100644
--- a/qapi/block-export.json
+++ b/qapi/block-export.json
@@ -362,14 +362,16 @@
# to the export before completion is signalled. (since: 5.2;
# default: false)
#
-# @iothread: The name of the iothread object where the export will
-# run. The default is to use the thread currently associated with
-# the block node. (since: 5.2)
+# @iothread: The name(s) of one or more iothread object(s) where the
+# export will run. The default is to use the thread currently
+# associated with the block node. (since: 5.2; multi-threading
+# since 10.1)
#
# @fixed-iothread: True prevents the block node from being moved to
# another thread while the export is active. If true and
# @iothread is given, export creation fails if the block node
-# cannot be moved to the iothread. The default is false.
+# cannot be moved to the iothread. Must not be true when giving
+# multiple iothreads for @iothread. The default is false.
# (since: 5.2)
#
# @allow-inactive: If true, the export allows the exported node to be inactive.
@@ -385,7 +387,7 @@
'base': { 'type': 'BlockExportType',
'id': 'str',
'*fixed-iothread': 'bool',
- '*iothread': 'str',
+ '*iothread': 'BlockExportIothreads',
'node-name': 'str',
'*writable': 'bool',
'*writethrough': 'bool',
@@ -401,6 +403,28 @@
'if': 'CONFIG_VDUSE_BLK_EXPORT' }
} }
+##
+# @BlockExportIothreads:
+#
+# Specify a single or multiple I/O threads in which to run a block export's I/O.
+#
+# @single: Run the export's I/O in the given single I/O thread.
+#
+# @multi: Use multi-threading across the given set of I/O threads, which must
+# must not be empty. Note: Passing a single I/O thread via this variant is
+# still treated as multi-threading, which is different from using the
+# @single variant. In particular, even if there only is a single I/O thread
+# in the set, export types that do not support multi-threading will
+# generally reject this variant, and BlockExportOptions.fixed-iothread is
+# always incompatible with it.
+#
+# Since: 10.1
+##
+{ 'alternate': 'BlockExportIothreads',
+ 'data': {
+ 'single': 'str',
+ 'multi': ['str'] } }
+
##
# @block-export-add:
#
diff --git a/include/block/export.h b/include/block/export.h
index 4bd9531d4d..ca45da928c 100644
--- a/include/block/export.h
+++ b/include/block/export.h
@@ -32,8 +32,16 @@ typedef struct BlockExportDriver {
/* True if the export type supports running on an inactive node */
bool supports_inactive;
- /* Creates and starts a new block export */
- int (*create)(BlockExport *, BlockExportOptions *, Error **);
+ /*
+ * Creates and starts a new block export.
+ *
+ * If the user passed a set of I/O threads for multi-threading, @multithread
+ * is a list of the @multithread_count corresponding contexts (freed by the
+ * caller). Note that @exp->ctx has no relation to that list.
+ */
+ int (*create)(BlockExport *exp, BlockExportOptions *opts,
+ AioContext *const *multithread, size_t multithread_count,
+ Error **errp);
/*
* Frees a removed block export. This function is only called after all
diff --git a/block/export/export.c b/block/export/export.c
index f3bbf11070..b733f269f3 100644
--- a/block/export/export.c
+++ b/block/export/export.c
@@ -76,16 +76,26 @@ BlockExport *blk_exp_add(BlockExportOptions *export, Error **errp)
{
bool fixed_iothread = export->has_fixed_iothread && export->fixed_iothread;
bool allow_inactive = export->has_allow_inactive && export->allow_inactive;
+ bool multithread = export->iothread &&
+ export->iothread->type == QTYPE_QLIST;
const BlockExportDriver *drv;
BlockExport *exp = NULL;
BlockDriverState *bs;
BlockBackend *blk = NULL;
AioContext *ctx;
+ AioContext **multithread_ctxs = NULL;
+ size_t multithread_count = 0;
uint64_t perm;
int ret;
GLOBAL_STATE_CODE();
+ if (fixed_iothread && multithread) {
+ error_setg(errp,
+ "Cannot use fixed-iothread for a multi-threaded export");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
if (!id_wellformed(export->id)) {
error_setg(errp, "Invalid block export id");
return NULL;
@@ -116,14 +126,16 @@ BlockExport *blk_exp_add(BlockExportOptions *export, Error **errp)
ctx = bdrv_get_aio_context(bs);
- if (export->iothread) {
+ /* Move the BDS to the target I/O thread, if it is a single one */
+ if (export->iothread && !multithread) {
+ const char *iothread_id = export->iothread->u.single;
IOThread *iothread;
AioContext *new_ctx;
Error **set_context_errp;
- iothread = iothread_by_id(export->iothread);
+ iothread = iothread_by_id(iothread_id);
if (!iothread) {
- error_setg(errp, "iothread \"%s\" not found", export->iothread);
+ error_setg(errp, "iothread \"%s\" not found", iothread_id);
goto fail;
}
@@ -137,6 +149,32 @@ BlockExport *blk_exp_add(BlockExportOptions *export, Error **errp)
} else if (fixed_iothread) {
goto fail;
}
+ } else if (multithread) {
+ strList *iothread_list = export->iothread->u.multi;
+ size_t i;
+
+ multithread_count = 0;
+ for (strList *e = iothread_list; e; e = e->next) {
+ multithread_count++;
+ }
+
+ if (multithread_count == 0) {
+ error_setg(errp, "The set of I/O threads must not be empty");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ multithread_ctxs = g_new(AioContext *, multithread_count);
+ i = 0;
+ for (strList *e = iothread_list; e; e = e->next) {
+ IOThread *iothread = iothread_by_id(e->value);
+
+ if (!iothread) {
+ error_setg(errp, "iothread \"%s\" not found", e->value);
+ goto fail;
+ }
+ multithread_ctxs[i++] = iothread_get_aio_context(iothread);
+ }
+ assert(i == multithread_count);
}
bdrv_graph_rdlock_main_loop();
@@ -195,7 +233,7 @@ BlockExport *blk_exp_add(BlockExportOptions *export, Error **errp)
.blk = blk,
};
- ret = drv->create(exp, export, errp);
+ ret = drv->create(exp, export, multithread_ctxs, multithread_count, errp);
if (ret < 0) {
goto fail;
}
@@ -203,6 +241,7 @@ BlockExport *blk_exp_add(BlockExportOptions *export, Error **errp)
assert(exp->blk != NULL);
QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&block_exports, exp, next);
+ g_free(multithread_ctxs);
return exp;
fail:
@@ -214,6 +253,7 @@ fail:
g_free(exp->id);
g_free(exp);
}
+ g_free(multithread_ctxs);
return NULL;
}
diff --git a/block/export/fuse.c b/block/export/fuse.c
index 75d80da616..44f0b796b3 100644
--- a/block/export/fuse.c
+++ b/block/export/fuse.c
@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ static const BlockDevOps fuse_export_blk_dev_ops = {
static int fuse_export_create(BlockExport *blk_exp,
BlockExportOptions *blk_exp_args,
+ AioContext *const *multithread,
+ size_t mt_count,
Error **errp)
{
ERRP_GUARD(); /* ensure clean-up even with error_fatal */
@@ -189,6 +191,11 @@ static int fuse_export_create(BlockExport *blk_exp,
assert(blk_exp_args->type == BLOCK_EXPORT_TYPE_FUSE);
+ if (multithread) {
+ error_setg(errp, "FUSE export does not support multi-threading");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/* For growable and writable exports, take the RESIZE permission */
if (args->growable || blk_exp_args->writable) {
uint64_t blk_perm, blk_shared_perm;
diff --git a/block/export/vduse-blk.c b/block/export/vduse-blk.c
index bd852e538d..bf70c98dd6 100644
--- a/block/export/vduse-blk.c
+++ b/block/export/vduse-blk.c
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static const BlockDevOps vduse_block_ops = {
};
static int vduse_blk_exp_create(BlockExport *exp, BlockExportOptions *opts,
+ AioContext *const *multithread, size_t mt_count,
Error **errp)
{
VduseBlkExport *vblk_exp = container_of(exp, VduseBlkExport, export);
@@ -301,6 +302,12 @@ static int vduse_blk_exp_create(BlockExport *exp, BlockExportOptions *opts,
return -EINVAL;
}
}
+
+ if (multithread) {
+ error_setg(errp, "vduse-blk export does not support multi-threading");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
vblk_exp->num_queues = num_queues;
vblk_exp->handler.blk = exp->blk;
vblk_exp->handler.serial = g_strdup(vblk_opts->serial ?: "");
diff --git a/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c b/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c
index d9d2014d9b..481d4b7441 100644
--- a/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c
+++ b/block/export/vhost-user-blk-server.c
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static const BlockDevOps vu_blk_dev_ops = {
};
static int vu_blk_exp_create(BlockExport *exp, BlockExportOptions *opts,
+ AioContext *const *multithread, size_t mt_count,
Error **errp)
{
VuBlkExport *vexp = container_of(exp, VuBlkExport, export);
@@ -340,6 +341,13 @@ static int vu_blk_exp_create(BlockExport *exp, BlockExportOptions *opts,
error_setg(errp, "num-queues must be greater than 0");
return -EINVAL;
}
+
+ if (multithread) {
+ error_setg(errp,
+ "vhost-user-blk export does not support multi-threading");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
vexp->handler.blk = exp->blk;
vexp->handler.serial = g_strdup("vhost_user_blk");
vexp->handler.logical_block_size = logical_block_size;
diff --git a/nbd/server.c b/nbd/server.c
index d242be9811..a1736a5a24 100644
--- a/nbd/server.c
+++ b/nbd/server.c
@@ -1793,6 +1793,7 @@ static const BlockDevOps nbd_block_ops = {
};
static int nbd_export_create(BlockExport *blk_exp, BlockExportOptions *exp_args,
+ AioContext *const *multithread, size_t mt_count,
Error **errp)
{
NBDExport *exp = container_of(blk_exp, NBDExport, common);
@@ -1829,6 +1830,11 @@ static int nbd_export_create(BlockExport *blk_exp, BlockExportOptions *exp_args,
return -EEXIST;
}
+ if (multithread) {
+ error_setg(errp, "NBD export does not support multi-threading");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
size = blk_getlength(blk);
if (size < 0) {
error_setg_errno(errp, -size,
--
2.49.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-04 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-04 13:27 [PATCH v2 00/21] export/fuse: Use coroutines and multi-threading Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 01/21] fuse: Copy write buffer content before polling Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-09 14:45 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 02/21] fuse: Ensure init clean-up even with error_fatal Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 03/21] fuse: Remove superfluous empty line Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 04/21] fuse: Explicitly set inode ID to 1 Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 05/21] fuse: Change setup_... to mount_fuse_export() Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 06/21] fuse: Fix mount options Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 07/21] fuse: Set direct_io and parallel_direct_writes Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/21] fuse: Introduce fuse_{at,de}tach_handlers() Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/21] fuse: Introduce fuse_{inc,dec}_in_flight() Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 10/21] fuse: Add halted flag Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 11/21] fuse: Rename length to blk_len in fuse_write() Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-09 14:48 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 12/21] block: Move qemu_fcntl_addfl() into osdep.c Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 15:18 ` Eric Blake
2025-06-09 15:03 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-07-01 7:24 ` Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 13/21] fuse: Manually process requests (without libfuse) Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-09 16:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 14/21] fuse: Reduce max read size Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 15/21] fuse: Process requests in coroutines Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-05 8:12 ` Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-09 16:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-04 13:28 ` Hanna Czenczek [this message]
2025-06-04 13:58 ` [PATCH v2 16/21] block/export: Add multi-threading interface Markus Armbruster
2025-06-09 17:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 17/21] iotests/307: Test multi-thread export interface Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 18/21] fuse: Implement multi-threading Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-09 18:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-27 1:08 ` Brian
2025-07-01 7:31 ` Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 19/21] qapi/block-export: Document FUSE's multi-threading Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-04 13:58 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 20/21] iotests/308: Add multi-threading sanity test Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-09 18:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 21/21] fuse: Increase MAX_WRITE_SIZE with a second buffer Hanna Czenczek
2025-06-10 23:37 ` Brian
2025-06-11 13:46 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-06-09 18:14 ` [PATCH v2 00/21] export/fuse: Use coroutines and multi-threading Stefan Hajnoczi
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