From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] block: add max_hw_transfer to BlockLimits
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 12:33:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210603173311.abker673xq6qscww@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210603133722.218465-4-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:37:18PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For block host devices, I/O can happen through either the kernel file
> descriptor I/O system calls (preadv/pwritev, io_submit, io_uring)
> or the SCSI passthrough ioctl SG_IO.
>
> In the latter case, the size of each transfer can be limited by the
> HBA, while for file descriptor I/O the kernel is able to split and
> merge I/O in smaller pieces as needed. Applying the HBA limits to
> file descriptor I/O results in more system calls and suboptimal
> performance, so this patch splits the max_transfer limit in two:
> max_transfer remains valid and is used in general, while max_hw_transfer
> is limited to the maximum hardware size. max_hw_transfer can then be
> included by the scsi-generic driver in the block limits page, to ensure
> that the stricter hardware limit is used.
>
> +/* Returns the maximum hardware transfer length, in bytes; guaranteed nonzero */
> +uint64_t blk_get_max_hw_transfer(BlockBackend *blk)
> +{
> + BlockDriverState *bs = blk_bs(blk);
> + uint64_t max = INT_MAX;
This is an unaligned value; should we instead round it down to the
request_alignment granularity?
> +
> + if (bs) {
> + max = MIN_NON_ZERO(bs->bl.max_hw_transfer, bs->bl.max_transfer);
> + }
> + return max;
> +}
> +
> /* Returns the maximum transfer length, in bytes; guaranteed nonzero */
> uint32_t blk_get_max_transfer(BlockBackend *blk)
> {
> +++ b/include/block/block_int.h
> @@ -695,6 +695,13 @@ typedef struct BlockLimits {
> * clamped down. */
> uint32_t max_transfer;
>
> + /* Maximal hardware transfer length in bytes. Applies whenever
Leading /* on its own line, per our style.
> + * transfers to the device bypass the kernel I/O scheduler, for
> + * example with SG_IO. If larger than max_transfer or if zero,
> + * blk_get_max_hw_transfer will fall back to max_transfer.
> + */
Should we mandate any additional requirements on this value such as
multiple of request_alignment or even power-of-2?
> + uint64_t max_hw_transfer;
> +
> /* memory alignment, in bytes so that no bounce buffer is needed */
> size_t min_mem_alignment;
>
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 13:37 [PATCH v3 0/7] block: file-posix queue Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] file-posix: fix max_iov for /dev/sg devices Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-07 5:39 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-07 6:16 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-07 7:23 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-15 15:58 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] scsi-generic: pass max_segments via max_iov field in BlockLimits Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 16:06 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-15 16:20 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-15 17:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] block: add max_hw_transfer to BlockLimits Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-03 17:33 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2021-06-04 7:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 16:18 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-16 13:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-16 13:46 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-17 9:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] file-posix: try BLKSECTGET on block devices too, do not round to power of 2 Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 16:32 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] block: feature detection for host block support Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 16:40 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] block: check for sys/disk.h Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 16:42 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-03 13:37 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] block: detect DKIOCGETBLOCKCOUNT/SIZE before use Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 16:50 ` Max Reitz
2021-06-15 16:57 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-07 13:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] block: file-posix queue Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-10 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
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