Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] xen-disk: use an IOThread per instance

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 20/06/2017 15:47, Paul Durrant wrote:
> This patch allocates an IOThread object for each xen_disk instance and
> sets the AIO context appropriately on connect. This allows processing
> of I/O to proceed in parallel.
> 
> The patch also adds tracepoints into xen_disk to make it possible to
> follow the state transtions of an instance in the log.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>

The QEMU block layer is not yet thread safe, but code running in
IOThreads still has to take the AioContext lock.  You need to call
aio_context_acquire/release in blk_bh and qemu_aio_complete.

Paolo

> ---
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/block/trace-events |  7 +++++++
>  hw/block/xen_disk.c   | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/block/trace-events b/hw/block/trace-events
> index 65e83dc258..608b24ba66 100644
> --- a/hw/block/trace-events
> +++ b/hw/block/trace-events
> @@ -10,3 +10,10 @@ virtio_blk_submit_multireq(void *mrb, int start, int num_reqs, uint64_t offset,
>  # hw/block/hd-geometry.c
>  hd_geometry_lchs_guess(void *blk, int cyls, int heads, int secs) "blk %p LCHS %d %d %d"
>  hd_geometry_guess(void *blk, uint32_t cyls, uint32_t heads, uint32_t secs, int trans) "blk %p CHS %u %u %u trans %d"
> +
> +# hw/block/xen_disk.c
> +xen_disk_alloc(char *name) "%s"
> +xen_disk_init(char *name) "%s"
> +xen_disk_connect(char *name) "%s"
> +xen_disk_disconnect(char *name) "%s"
> +xen_disk_free(char *name) "%s"
> diff --git a/hw/block/xen_disk.c b/hw/block/xen_disk.c
> index a9942d32db..ec1085c802 100644
> --- a/hw/block/xen_disk.c
> +++ b/hw/block/xen_disk.c
> @@ -27,10 +27,13 @@
>  #include "hw/xen/xen_backend.h"
>  #include "xen_blkif.h"
>  #include "sysemu/blockdev.h"
> +#include "sysemu/iothread.h"
>  #include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>  #include "qapi/error.h"
>  #include "qapi/qmp/qdict.h"
>  #include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
> +#include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
> +#include "trace.h"
>  
>  /* ------------------------------------------------------------- */
>  
> @@ -128,6 +131,9 @@ struct XenBlkDev {
>      DriveInfo           *dinfo;
>      BlockBackend        *blk;
>      QEMUBH              *bh;
> +
> +    IOThread            *iothread;
> +    AioContext          *ctx;
>  };
>  
>  /* ------------------------------------------------------------- */
> @@ -923,11 +929,31 @@ static void blk_bh(void *opaque)
>  static void blk_alloc(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>  {
>      struct XenBlkDev *blkdev = container_of(xendev, struct XenBlkDev, xendev);
> +    Object *obj;
> +    char *name;
> +    Error *err = NULL;
> +
> +    trace_xen_disk_alloc(xendev->name);
>  
>      QLIST_INIT(&blkdev->inflight);
>      QLIST_INIT(&blkdev->finished);
>      QLIST_INIT(&blkdev->freelist);
> -    blkdev->bh = qemu_bh_new(blk_bh, blkdev);
> +
> +    obj = object_new(TYPE_IOTHREAD);
> +    name = g_strdup_printf("iothread-%s", xendev->name);
> +
> +    object_property_add_child(object_get_objects_root(), name, obj, &err);
> +    assert(!err);
> +
> +    g_free(name);
> +
> +    user_creatable_complete(obj, &err);
> +    assert(!err);
> +
> +    blkdev->iothread = (IOThread *)object_dynamic_cast(obj, TYPE_IOTHREAD);
> +    blkdev->ctx = iothread_get_aio_context(blkdev->iothread);
> +    blkdev->bh = aio_bh_new(blkdev->ctx, blk_bh, blkdev);
> +
>      if (xen_mode != XEN_EMULATE) {
>          batch_maps = 1;
>      }
> @@ -954,6 +980,8 @@ static int blk_init(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>      int info = 0;
>      char *directiosafe = NULL;
>  
> +    trace_xen_disk_init(xendev->name);
> +
>      /* read xenstore entries */
>      if (blkdev->params == NULL) {
>          char *h = NULL;
> @@ -1069,6 +1097,8 @@ static int blk_connect(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>      unsigned int i;
>      uint32_t *domids;
>  
> +    trace_xen_disk_connect(xendev->name);
> +
>      /* read-only ? */
>      if (blkdev->directiosafe) {
>          qflags = BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO;
> @@ -1285,6 +1315,8 @@ static int blk_connect(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>          blkdev->persistent_gnt_count = 0;
>      }
>  
> +    blk_set_aio_context(blkdev->blk, blkdev->ctx);
> +
>      xen_be_bind_evtchn(&blkdev->xendev);
>  
>      xen_pv_printf(&blkdev->xendev, 1, "ok: proto %s, nr-ring-ref %u, "
> @@ -1298,13 +1330,20 @@ static void blk_disconnect(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>  {
>      struct XenBlkDev *blkdev = container_of(xendev, struct XenBlkDev, xendev);
>  
> +    trace_xen_disk_disconnect(xendev->name);
> +
> +    aio_context_acquire(blkdev->ctx);
> +
>      if (blkdev->blk) {
> +        blk_set_aio_context(blkdev->blk, qemu_get_aio_context());
>          blk_detach_dev(blkdev->blk, blkdev);
>          blk_unref(blkdev->blk);
>          blkdev->blk = NULL;
>      }
>      xen_pv_unbind_evtchn(&blkdev->xendev);
>  
> +    aio_context_release(blkdev->ctx);
> +
>      if (blkdev->sring) {
>          xengnttab_unmap(blkdev->xendev.gnttabdev, blkdev->sring,
>                          blkdev->nr_ring_ref);
> @@ -1338,6 +1377,8 @@ static int blk_free(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>      struct XenBlkDev *blkdev = container_of(xendev, struct XenBlkDev, xendev);
>      struct ioreq *ioreq;
>  
> +    trace_xen_disk_free(xendev->name);
> +
>      if (blkdev->blk || blkdev->sring) {
>          blk_disconnect(xendev);
>      }
> @@ -1355,6 +1396,7 @@ static int blk_free(struct XenDevice *xendev)
>      g_free(blkdev->dev);
>      g_free(blkdev->devtype);
>      qemu_bh_delete(blkdev->bh);
> +    object_unparent(OBJECT(blkdev->iothread));
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
>