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From: "Liu, Changcheng" <jerrliu@nvidia.com>
To: pbonzini@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, changcheng.liu@aliyun.com
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_blk: add use_irq_affinity module parameter
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 14:21:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <am2QeS/lS+Cova+I@yokbvdiprd370.nvidia.com> (raw)

When creating many virtio-blk devices, probe starts failing with
-ENOSPC (-28) because the system runs out of interrupt vectors:

  virtio_blk virtioNNN: probe with driver virtio_blk failed with error -28

By default virtio-blk uses managed IRQ affinity, which reserves an
interrupt vector on every CPU for each device (about nr_cpus vectors per
device). On a host with many CPUs and many devices this exhausts the
vectors long before all devices are probed.

Add use_irq_affinity (default true, no behaviour change). Set it to 0 to
use unmanaged interrupts, so each device only uses a couple of vectors
instead of one per CPU, allowing far more devices to probe.

Signed-off-by: Liu, Changcheng <jerrliu@nvidia.com>

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index 32bf3ba07a9d..184f1c1f4485 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ static unsigned int poll_queues;
 module_param(poll_queues, uint, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(poll_queues, "The number of dedicated virtqueues for polling I/O");
 
+static bool use_irq_affinity = true;
+module_param(use_irq_affinity, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_irq_affinity,
+		 "Use managed IRQ affinity for virtqueues (default: true)");
+
 static int major;
 static DEFINE_IDA(vd_index_ida);
 
@@ -1016,7 +1021,8 @@ static int init_vq(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
 	}
 
 	/* Discover virtqueues and write information to configuration.  */
-	err = virtio_find_vqs(vdev, num_vqs, vqs, vqs_info, &desc);
+	err = virtio_find_vqs(vdev, num_vqs, vqs, vqs_info,
+			      use_irq_affinity ? &desc : NULL);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
2.43.7


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-01  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-01  6:21 Liu, Changcheng [this message]
2026-08-05 17:45 ` [PATCH] virtio_blk: add use_irq_affinity module parameter Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-08-06  2:40   ` Liu, Changcheng
2026-08-11 14:37     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-08-12  2:25       ` Liu, Changcheng

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