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* [PATCH] virtio-blk: use VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE and VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE in virtio1
@ 2015-08-21 22:53 Paolo Bonzini
  2015-09-07 16:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2015-08-21 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, kvm
  Cc: open list:VIRTIO CORE, NET AND BLOCK DRIVERS, Michael S. Tsirkin

VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE is important in order to achieve good performance
(up to 2x, though more realistically +30-40%) in latency-bound workloads.
However, it was removed by mistake together with VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH.

It will be restored in the next revision of the virtio 1.0 standard, so
do the same in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index d4d05f064d39..ea2c17c66dfb 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -478,8 +478,7 @@ static int virtblk_get_cache_mode(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 				   struct virtio_blk_config, wce,
 				   &writeback);
 	if (err)
-		writeback = virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE) ||
-		            virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1);
+		writeback = virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE);
 
 	return writeback;
 }
@@ -840,7 +839,7 @@ static unsigned int features_legacy[] = {
 static unsigned int features[] = {
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SIZE_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY,
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE,
-	VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY,
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE, VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY, VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE,
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ,
 };
 
-- 
2.4.3

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