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From: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
To: Zhenyu Ye <yezhenyu2@huawei.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com, xiexiangyou@huawei.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Add timeout mechanism to qmp actions
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:29:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab245c4580cd5aecc8c5d338fd0e2802cac029d5.camel@euphon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4eb92c5e-fa2f-50a5-a0f7-5cabe6e15bb4@huawei.com>

On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 09:34 +0800, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
> On 2020/10/19 21:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 19/10/20 14:40, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
> > > The kernel backtrace for io_submit in GUEST is:
> > > 
> > > 	guest# ./offcputime -K -p `pgrep -nx fio`
> > > 	    b'finish_task_switch'
> > > 	    b'__schedule'
> > > 	    b'schedule'
> > > 	    b'io_schedule'
> > > 	    b'blk_mq_get_tag'
> > > 	    b'blk_mq_get_request'
> > > 	    b'blk_mq_make_request'
> > > 	    b'generic_make_request'
> > > 	    b'submit_bio'
> > > 	    b'blkdev_direct_IO'
> > > 	    b'generic_file_read_iter'
> > > 	    b'aio_read'
> > > 	    b'io_submit_one'
> > > 	    b'__x64_sys_io_submit'
> > > 	    b'do_syscall_64'
> > > 	    b'entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe'
> > > 	    -                fio (1464)
> > > 		40031912
> > > 
> > > And Linux io_uring can avoid the latency problem.

Thanks for the info. What this tells us is basically the inflight
requests are high. It's sad that the linux-aio is in practice
implemented as a blocking API.

Host side backtrace will be of more help. Can you get that too?

Fam

> > 
> > What filesystem are you using?
> > 
> 
> On host, the VM image and disk images are based on ext4 filesystem.
> In guest, the '/' uses xfs filesystem, and the disks are raw devices.
> 
> guest# df -hT
> Filesystem              Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> devtmpfs                devtmpfs   16G     0   16G   0% /dev
> tmpfs                   tmpfs      16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                   tmpfs      16G  976K   16G   1% /run
> /dev/mapper/fedora-root xfs       8.0G  3.2G  4.9G  40% /
> tmpfs                   tmpfs      16G     0   16G   0% /tmp
> /dev/sda1               xfs      1014M  181M  834M  18% /boot
> tmpfs                   tmpfs     3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /run/user/0
> 
> guest# lsblk
> NAME            MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda               8:0    0  10G  0 disk
> ├─sda1            8:1    0   1G  0 part /boot
> └─sda2            8:2    0   9G  0 part
>   ├─fedora-root 253:0    0   8G  0 lvm  /
>   └─fedora-swap 253:1    0   1G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
> vda             252:0    0  10G  0 disk
> vdb             252:16   0  10G  0 disk
> vdc             252:32   0  10G  0 disk
> vdd             252:48   0  10G  0 disk
> 
> Thanks,
> Zhenyu
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-10 14:52 [PATCH v1 0/2] Add timeout mechanism to qmp actions Zhenyu Ye
2020-08-10 14:52 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] util: introduce aio_context_acquire_timeout Zhenyu Ye
2020-08-10 14:52 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] qmp: use aio_context_acquire_timeout replace aio_context_acquire Zhenyu Ye
2020-08-10 15:38 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] Add timeout mechanism to qmp actions Kevin Wolf
2020-08-11 13:54   ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-08-21 12:52     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-14 13:27     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-17  7:36       ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-09-17 10:10         ` Fam Zheng
2020-09-17 15:44         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-17 16:01           ` Fam Zheng
2020-09-18 11:23             ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-09-18 14:06               ` Fam Zheng
2020-09-19  2:22                 ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-09-21 11:14                   ` Fam Zheng
2020-10-13 10:00                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-19 12:40                       ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-10-19 13:25                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-20  1:34                           ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-10-22 16:29                             ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2020-12-08 13:10                               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-12-08 13:47                                 ` Glauber Costa
2020-12-14 16:33                                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-12-21 11:30                                     ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-09-14 14:42     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-17  8:12       ` Zhenyu Ye
2020-08-12 13:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-08-13  1:51   ` Zhenyu Ye

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