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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, jasowang@redhat.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:55:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5046167C.3070109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120904144754.GO9805@redhat.com>

Il 04/09/2012 16:47, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>> >  static void virtscsi_init_vq(struct virtio_scsi_vq *virtscsi_vq,
>> > -			     struct virtqueue *vq)
>> > +			     struct virtqueue *vq, bool affinity)
>> >  {
>> >  	spin_lock_init(&virtscsi_vq->vq_lock);
>> >  	virtscsi_vq->vq = vq;
>> > +	if (affinity)
>> > +		virtqueue_set_affinity(vq, virtqueue_get_queue_index(vq) -
>> > +				       VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_BASE);
>> >  }
>> >  
> This means in practice if you have less virtqueues than CPUs,
> things are not going to work well, will they?

Not particularly.  It could be better or worse than single queue
depending on the workload.

> Any idea what to do?

Two possibilities:

1) Add a stride argument to virtqueue_set_affinity, and make it equal to
the number of queues.

2) Make multiqueue the default in QEMU, and make the default number of
queues equal to the number of VCPUs.

I was going for (2).

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-28 11:54 [PATCH 0/5] Multiqueue virtio-scsi Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-29  7:54   ` Jason Wang
2012-09-05 23:32   ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-05 23:32   ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] virtio-scsi: allocate target pointers in a separate memory block Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 14:07   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-28 14:25     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] virtio-scsi: pass struct virtio_scsi to virtqueue completion function Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-28 11:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04  2:21   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-04  6:46     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04  8:46       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 10:25         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 11:09           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 11:18             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 13:35               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 13:45                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:19                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:25                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 20:11       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-05  7:03         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 12:48   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 13:49     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:21       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:30         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-09-04 14:41           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:47   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 14:55     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-09-04 15:03       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30  7:13 ` [PATCH 0/5] Multiqueue virtio-scsi Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-30 14:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 15:45   ` Paolo Bonzini

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