[PATCH v3] virtio: increase virtqueue size for virtio-scsi and virtio-blk

[PATCH v3] virtio: increase virtqueue size for virtio-scsi and virtio-blk

[Denis Plotnikov]

The goal is to reduce the amount of requests issued by a guest on
1M reads/writes. This rises the performance up to 4% on that kind of
disk access pattern.

The maximum chunk size to be used for the guest disk accessing is
limited with seg_max parameter, which represents the max amount of
pices in the scatter-geather list in one guest disk request.

Since seg_max is virqueue_size dependent, increasing the virtqueue
size increases seg_max, which, in turn, increases the maximum size
of data to be read/write from a guest disk.

More details in the original problem statment:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg03721.html

Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>

---

v3:
  * typos fixed

v2:
  * seg_max default value changing removed
---
 hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 2 +-
 hw/core/machine.c     | 2 ++
 hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
index 09f46ed85f..142863a3b2 100644
--- a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
+++ b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ static Property virtio_blk_properties[] = {
     DEFINE_PROP_BIT("request-merging", VirtIOBlock, conf.request_merging, 0,
                     true),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("num-queues", VirtIOBlock, conf.num_queues, 1),
-    DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("queue-size", VirtIOBlock, conf.queue_size, 128),
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("queue-size", VirtIOBlock, conf.queue_size, 256),
     DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("seg-max-adjust", VirtIOBlock, conf.seg_max_adjust, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_LINK("iothread", VirtIOBlock, conf.iothread, TYPE_IOTHREAD,
                      IOThread *),
diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
index 2501b540ec..3427d6cf4c 100644
--- a/hw/core/machine.c
+++ b/hw/core/machine.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
 
 GlobalProperty hw_compat_4_2[] = {
+    { "virtio-blk-device", "queue-size", "128"},
+    { "virtio-scsi-device", "virtqueue_size", "128"},
     { "virtio-blk-device", "x-enable-wce-if-config-wce", "off" },
     { "virtio-blk-device", "seg-max-adjust", "off"},
     { "virtio-scsi-device", "seg_max_adjust", "off"},
diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
index 3b61563609..472bbd233b 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static void virtio_scsi_device_unrealize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 static Property virtio_scsi_properties[] = {
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("num_queues", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.num_queues, 1),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("virtqueue_size", VirtIOSCSI,
-                                         parent_obj.conf.virtqueue_size, 128),
+                                         parent_obj.conf.virtqueue_size, 256),
     DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("seg_max_adjust", VirtIOSCSI,
                       parent_obj.conf.seg_max_adjust, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("max_sectors", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.max_sectors,
-- 
2.17.0

Re: [PATCH v3] virtio: increase virtqueue size for virtio-scsi and virtio-blk

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:46:48AM +0300, Denis Plotnikov wrote:
> The goal is to reduce the amount of requests issued by a guest on
> 1M reads/writes. This rises the performance up to 4% on that kind of
> disk access pattern.
> 
> The maximum chunk size to be used for the guest disk accessing is
> limited with seg_max parameter, which represents the max amount of
> pices in the scatter-geather list in one guest disk request.
> 
> Since seg_max is virqueue_size dependent, increasing the virtqueue
> size increases seg_max, which, in turn, increases the maximum size
> of data to be read/write from a guest disk.
> 
> More details in the original problem statment:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg03721.html
> 
> Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> v3:
>   * typos fixed
> 
> v2:
>   * seg_max default value changing removed
> ---
>  hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 2 +-
>  hw/core/machine.c     | 2 ++
>  hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

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