File 21847-pscsi.patch of Package xen
# HG changeset patch
# User "Dube, Lutz" <lutz.dube@ts.fujitsu.com>
# Date 1279902875 -3600
# Node ID 4814e16ea4105502332407e3379c49da92018899
# Parent e23302fcb83c72f93ec01285bd7f4f1641eb67e4
tools/xend: Fix performance of xend with more than 10000 FC device paths
On server startup xend start or a later xend restart needs approx. 30 min to
start/restart. Without attached FC devices xend start/restart needs only some
seconds.
server type: Fujitsu Primergy RX600-S5
The time gets lost in xen/xend/XendNode.py line 329 while calling
vscsi_util.get_all_scsi_device().
329 for pscsi_record in vscsi_util.get_all_scsi_devices():
330 scsi_id = pscsi_record['scsi_id']
331 if scsi_id:
332 saved_HBA_uuid = None
I think, in most cases we don't need all the PSCSI devices registered in
xend, but only a few of it.
So a good solution for this perforamce issue is to scan only the SCSI device
paths we need, controlled by a new option in xend-config.sxp.
I have made a patch to allow specification of scsi devices we need in xend
in the config file xend-config.sxp.
The new options pscsi-device-mask expects a list of device ids oder partial
device ids like the option of lsscsi, e.g.
(pscsi-device-mask ('<partial-dev-id1' 'partial-dev-id2' ...))
Without this option set in xend-config.sxp or if lsscsi is not support, all
device paths are process like today.
Signed-off-by: Lutz Dube Lutz.Dube@ts.fujitsu.com
Comment from Masaki Kanno <kanno.masaki@jp.fujitsu.com>: "Well done"
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Index: xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/examples/xend-config.sxp
===================================================================
--- xen-4.0.2-testing.orig/tools/examples/xend-config.sxp
+++ xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/examples/xend-config.sxp
@@ -277,3 +277,11 @@
# we have to realize this may incur security issue and we can't make sure the
# device assignment could really work properly even after we do this.
#(pci-passthrough-strict-check yes)
+
+# If we have a very big scsi device configuration, start of xend is slow,
+# because xend scans all the device paths to build its internal PSCSI device
+# list. If we need only a few devices for assigning to a guest, we can reduce
+# the scan to this device. Set list list of device paths in same syntax like in
+# command lsscsi, e.g. ('16:0:0:0' '15:0')
+# (pscsi-device-mask ('*'))
+
Index: xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py
===================================================================
--- xen-4.0.2-testing.orig/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py
+++ xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/python/xen/util/vscsi_util.py
@@ -148,11 +148,12 @@ def _vscsi_get_scsidevices_by_sysfs():
return devices
-def vscsi_get_scsidevices():
+def vscsi_get_scsidevices(mask=""):
""" get all scsi devices information """
- devices = _vscsi_get_scsidevices_by_lsscsi("")
- if devices:
+ devices = _vscsi_get_scsidevices_by_lsscsi("[%s]" % mask)
+ if devices or (len(mask) and mask[0] != "*"):
+ # devices found or partial device scan
return devices
return _vscsi_get_scsidevices_by_sysfs()
@@ -274,9 +275,9 @@ def get_scsi_device(pHCTL):
return _make_scsi_record(scsi_info)
return None
-def get_all_scsi_devices():
+def get_all_scsi_devices(mask=""):
scsi_records = []
- for scsi_info in vscsi_get_scsidevices():
+ for scsi_info in vscsi_get_scsidevices(mask):
scsi_record = _make_scsi_record(scsi_info)
scsi_records.append(scsi_record)
return scsi_records
Index: xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py
===================================================================
--- xen-4.0.2-testing.orig/tools/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py
+++ xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py
@@ -323,7 +323,12 @@ class XendNode:
pscsi_table = {}
pscsi_HBA_table = {}
- for pscsi_record in vscsi_util.get_all_scsi_devices():
+ pscsi_records = []
+ for pscsi_mask in xendoptions().get_pscsi_device_mask():
+ pscsi_records += vscsi_util.get_all_scsi_devices(pscsi_mask)
+ log.debug("pscsi record count: %s" % len(pscsi_records))
+
+ for pscsi_record in pscsi_records:
scsi_id = pscsi_record['scsi_id']
if scsi_id:
saved_HBA_uuid = None
Index: xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/python/xen/xend/XendOptions.py
===================================================================
--- xen-4.0.2-testing.orig/tools/python/xen/xend/XendOptions.py
+++ xen-4.0.2-testing/tools/python/xen/xend/XendOptions.py
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ class XendOptions:
"""
print >>sys.stderr, "xend [ERROR]", fmt % args
+ """Default mask for pscsi device scan."""
+ xend_pscsi_device_mask = ['*']
+
def configure(self):
self.set_config()
@@ -430,6 +433,10 @@ class XendOptions:
return self.get_config_bool("pci-passthrough-strict-check",
self.pci_dev_assign_strict_check_default)
+ def get_pscsi_device_mask(self):
+ return self.get_config_value("pscsi-device-mask",
+ self.xend_pscsi_device_mask)
+
class XendOptionsFile(XendOptions):
"""Default path to the config file."""
