File 0328-virtio-scsi-Add-virtqueue_size-para.patch of Package qemu.19028
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:52:55 +0100
Subject: virtio-scsi: Add virtqueue_size parameter allowing virtqueue size to
be set.
Since Linux switched to blk-mq as the default in Linux commit
5c279bd9e406 ("scsi: default to scsi-mq"), virtio-scsi LUNs consume
about 10x as much guest kernel memory.
This commit allows you to choose the virtqueue size for each
virtio-scsi-pci controller like this:
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi,virtqueue_size=16
The default is still 128 as before. Using smaller virtqueue_size
allows many more disks to be added to small memory virtual machines.
For a 1 vCPU, 500 MB, no swap VM I observed:
With scsi-mq enabled (upstream kernel): 175 disks
-"- ditto -"- virtqueue_size=64: 318 disks
-"- ditto -"- virtqueue_size=16: 775 disks
With scsi-mq disabled (kernel before 5c279bd9e406): 1755 disks
Note that to have any effect, this requires a kernel patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/10/689
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170810165255.20865-1-rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5c0919d02066c3d0eb896c33265ad90101a6a84a)
[BR: FATE#327255]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
---
hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c | 11 +++++------
include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
index f4eff4d81aa2a6bd624b157b1969..8e4807a6e632b6d9bc1e9bd77cc8 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
@@ -909,13 +909,10 @@ void virtio_scsi_common_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp,
s->sense_size = VIRTIO_SCSI_SENSE_DEFAULT_SIZE;
s->cdb_size = VIRTIO_SCSI_CDB_DEFAULT_SIZE;
- s->ctrl_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE,
- ctrl);
- s->event_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE,
- evt);
+ s->ctrl_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, s->conf.virtqueue_size, ctrl);
+ s->event_vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, s->conf.virtqueue_size, evt);
for (i = 0; i < s->conf.num_queues; i++) {
- s->cmd_vqs[i] = virtio_add_queue(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE,
- cmd);
+ s->cmd_vqs[i] = virtio_add_queue(vdev, s->conf.virtqueue_size, cmd);
}
if (s->conf.iothread) {
@@ -991,6 +988,8 @@ 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),
DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("max_sectors", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.max_sectors,
0xFFFF),
DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("cmd_per_lun", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.cmd_per_lun,
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h
index ba2f5ce07c31ed332b3bfb59f6b3..e54b8ac00f4c23f4f33d888f9715 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
#define VIRTIO_SCSI(obj) \
OBJECT_CHECK(VirtIOSCSI, (obj), TYPE_VIRTIO_SCSI)
-#define VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_SIZE 128
#define VIRTIO_SCSI_MAX_CHANNEL 0
#define VIRTIO_SCSI_MAX_TARGET 255
#define VIRTIO_SCSI_MAX_LUN 16383
@@ -47,6 +46,7 @@ typedef struct virtio_scsi_config VirtIOSCSIConfig;
struct VirtIOSCSIConf {
uint32_t num_queues;
+ uint32_t virtqueue_size;
uint32_t max_sectors;
uint32_t cmd_per_lun;
char *vhostfd;