Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] virtio-scsi: default num_queues to -smp N

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:01:57 +0000
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:

> Automatically size the number of request virtqueues to match the number

"If the pci transport is used, ..." ?

> of vCPUs.  This ensures that completion interrupts are handled on the
> same vCPU that submitted the request.  No IPI is necessary to complete
> an I/O request and performance is improved.

"For other transports, the number of request queues continues to
default to 1." ?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/core/machine.c               |  3 +++
>  hw/scsi/vhost-scsi.c            |  3 ++-
>  hw/scsi/vhost-user-scsi.c       |  3 ++-
>  hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c           |  6 +++++-
>  hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-pci.c      | 10 ++++++++--
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-scsi-pci.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  hw/virtio/virtio-scsi-pci.c     | 10 ++++++++--
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h |  2 ++
>  8 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
(...)
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-pci.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-pci.c
> index e8dfbfc60f..38a8f0c3ef 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-pci.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-pci.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>  #include "qemu/osdep.h"
>  
>  #include "standard-headers/linux/virtio_pci.h"
> +#include "hw/boards.h"
>  #include "hw/qdev-properties.h"
>  #include "hw/virtio/vhost-scsi.h"
>  #include "qapi/error.h"
> @@ -47,10 +48,15 @@ static void vhost_scsi_pci_realize(VirtIOPCIProxy *vpci_dev, Error **errp)
>  {
>      VHostSCSIPCI *dev = VHOST_SCSI_PCI(vpci_dev);
>      DeviceState *vdev = DEVICE(&dev->vdev);
> -    VirtIOSCSICommon *vs = VIRTIO_SCSI_COMMON(vdev);
> +    VirtIOSCSIConf *conf = &dev->vdev.parent_obj.parent_obj.conf;
> +
> +    /* 1:1 vq to vcpu mapping is ideal because it avoids IPIs */
> +    if (conf->num_queues == VIRTIO_SCSI_AUTO_NUM_QUEUES) {
> +        conf->num_queues = current_machine->smp.cpus;

This now maps the request vqs 1:1 to the vcpus. What about the fixed
vqs? If they don't really matter, amend the comment to explain that?

> +    }
>  
>      if (vpci_dev->nvectors == DEV_NVECTORS_UNSPECIFIED) {
> -        vpci_dev->nvectors = vs->conf.num_queues + 3;
> +        vpci_dev->nvectors = conf->num_queues + VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_NUM_FIXED + 1;
>      }
>  
>      qdev_set_parent_bus(vdev, BUS(&vpci_dev->bus));