From: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: fam@euphon.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
target-devel@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] vhost/qemu: thread per IO SCSI vq
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:49:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ba1bd55-6772-2d75-4b63-72445830a446@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e91e9eee-7ff4-3ef6-955a-706276065d9b@redhat.com>
On 11/18/20 10:35 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
>> its just extra code. This patch:
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg150151.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!MJS-iYeBuOljoz2xerETyn4c1N9i0XnOE8oNhz4ebbzCMNeQIP_Iie8zH18L7cY7_hur$
>> would work without the ENABLE ioctl I mean.
>
>
> That seems to pre-allocate all workers. If we don't care the resources
> (127 workers) consumption it could be fine.
It only makes what the user requested via num_queues.
That patch will:
1. For the default case of num_queues=1 we use the single worker created
from the SET_OWNER ioctl.
2. If num_queues > 1, then it creates a worker thread per num_queue > 1.
>
>
>>
>>
>> And if you guys want to do the completely new interface, then none of
>> this matters I guess :)
>>
>> For disable see below.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> My issue/convern is that in general these calls seems useful, but we
>>>> don't really
>>>> need them for scsi because vhost scsi is already stuck creating vqs
>>>> like how it does
>>>> due to existing users. If we do the ifcvf_vdpa_set_vq_ready type of
>>>> design where
>>>> we just set some bit, then the new ioctl does not give us a lot.
>>>> It's just an extra
>>>> check and extra code.
>>>>
>>>> And for the mlx5_vdpa_set_vq_ready type of design, it doesn't seem
>>>> like it's going
>>>> to happen a lot where the admin is going to want to remove vqs from
>>>> a running device.
>>>
>>>
>>> In this case, qemu may just disable the queues of vhost-scsi via
>>> SET_VRING_ENABLE and then we can free resources?
>>
>>
>> Some SCSI background in case it doesn't work like net:
>> -------
>> When the user sets up mq for vhost-scsi/virtio-scsi, for max perf and
>> no cares about mem use they would normally set num_queues based on the
>> number of vCPUs and MSI-x vectors. I think the default in qemu now is
>> to try and detect that value.
>>
>> When the virtio_scsi driver is loaded into the guest kernel, it takes
>> the num_queues value and tells the scsi/block mq layer to create
>> num_queues multiqueue hw queues.
>
>
> If I read the code correctly, for modern device, guest will set
> queue_enable for the queues that it wants to use. So in this ideal case,
> qemu can forward them to VRING_ENABLE and reset VRING_ENABLE during
> device reset.
I was thinking more you want an event like when a device/LUN is
added/removed to a host. Instead of kicking off a device scan, you could
call the block helper to remap queues. It would then not be too invasive
to running IO. I'll look into reset some more.
>
> But it would be complicated to support legacy device and qemu.
>
>
>>
>> ------
>>
>> I was trying to say in the previous email that is if all we do is set
>> some bits to indicate the queue is disabled, free its resources, stop
>> polling/queueing in the scsi/target layer, flush etc, it does not seem
>> useful. I was trying to ask when would a user only want this behavior?
>
>
> I think it's device reset, the semantic is that unless the queue is
> enabled, we should treat it as disabled.
>
Ah ok. I I'll look into that some more. A funny thing is that I was
trying to test that a while ago, but it wasn't helpful. I'm guessing it
didn't work because it didn't implement what you wanted for disable
right now :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 23:18 [PATCH 00/10] vhost/qemu: thread per IO SCSI vq Mike Christie
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 1/1] qemu vhost scsi: add VHOST_SET_VRING_ENABLE support Mike Christie
2020-11-17 11:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-12-02 9:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-02 16:05 ` Michael Christie
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 01/10] vhost: remove work arg from vhost_work_flush Mike Christie
2020-11-17 13:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 02/10] vhost scsi: remove extra flushes Mike Christie
2020-11-17 13:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] vhost poll: fix coding style Mike Christie
2020-11-17 13:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] vhost: support multiple worker threads Mike Christie
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 05/10] vhost: poll support support multiple workers Mike Christie
2020-11-17 15:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 06/10] vhost scsi: make SCSI cmd completion per vq Mike Christie
2020-11-17 16:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 07/10] vhost, vhost-scsi: flush IO vqs then send TMF rsp Mike Christie
2020-11-17 16:05 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 08/10] vhost: move msg_handler to new ops struct Mike Christie
2020-11-17 16:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 09/10] vhost: add VHOST_SET_VRING_ENABLE support Mike Christie
2020-11-17 16:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-12 23:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] vhost-scsi: create a woker per IO vq Mike Christie
2020-11-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 00/10] vhost/qemu: thread per IO SCSI vq Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-17 19:13 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-18 9:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-11-19 14:00 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-18 11:31 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-19 14:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-11-19 16:11 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-19 16:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-19 16:43 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-19 17:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-20 8:45 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-20 12:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-01 12:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-12-01 13:45 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-01 17:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-12-02 10:35 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-23 15:17 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-18 5:17 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-18 6:57 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-18 7:19 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-18 7:54 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-18 20:06 ` Mike Christie
2020-11-19 4:35 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-19 15:49 ` Mike Christie [this message]
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