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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Naredula Janardhana Reddy <naredula.jana@gmail.com>,
	Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk multiqueue support in qemu.
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:17:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A39047.5070806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150709162723-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>



On 09/07/2015 15:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On the positive side, we do need something similar to the last 3 patches
> > to expose multiqueue to the guest.  But it will require much more work
> > in QEMU to achieve true multiqueue.
> 
> Might this be useful as an intermediate step, e.g. for testing
> guest code?

Yes, this is already how virtio-scsi multiqueue is implemented.  The
speedup is noticeable.  However, for virtio-blk there is a huge
consumption of interrupt vectors in the guest, so it doesn't scale to
multiple disks as well as virtio-scsi.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 17:15 [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk multiqueue support in qemu Naredula Janardhana Reddy
2015-07-02  1:21 ` Fam Zheng
2015-07-08 14:37   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-09  9:13     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
     [not found]     ` <20150709132248.GA12399@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
2015-07-09 13:29       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-10 17:56         ` Naredula Janardhana Reddy
2015-07-13 10:04         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-07-13 10:17         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-07-13 11:21           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13 11:24             ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-13 11:41               ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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