[PATCH v6 0/7] virtio-pci: enable blk and scsi multi-queue by default

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

v6:
 * Rebased onto QEMU 5.1 and added the now-necessary machine compat opts.

v4:
 * Sorry for the long delay. I considered replacing this series with a simpler
   approach. Real hardware ships with a fixed number of queues (e.g. 128). The
   equivalent can be done in QEMU too. That way we don't need to magically si=
ze
   num_queues. In the end I decided against this approach because the Linux
   virtio_blk.ko and virtio_scsi.ko guest drivers unconditionally initialized
   all available queues until recently (it was written with
   num_queues=3Dnum_vcpus in mind). It doesn't make sense for a 1 CPU guest to
   bring up 128 virtqueues (waste of resources and possibly weird performance
   effects with blk-mq).
 * Honor maximum number of MSI-X vectors and virtqueues [Daniel Berrange]
 * Update commit descriptions to mention maximum MSI-X vector and virtqueue
   caps [Raphael]
v3:
 * Introduce virtio_pci_optimal_num_queues() helper to enforce VIRTIO_QUEUE_M=
AX
   in one place
 * Use VIRTIO_SCSI_VQ_NUM_FIXED constant in all cases [Cornelia]
 * Update hw/core/machine.c compat properties for QEMU 5.0 [Michael]
v3:
 * Add new performance results that demonstrate the scalability
 * Mention that this is PCI-specific [Cornelia]
v2:
 * Let the virtio-DEVICE-pci device select num-queues because the optimal
   multi-queue configuration may differ between virtio-pci, virtio-mmio, and
   virtio-ccw [Cornelia]

Enabling multi-queue on virtio-pci storage devices improves performance on SMP
guests because the completion interrupt is handled on the vCPU that submitted
the I/O request.  This avoids IPIs inside the guest.

Note that performance is unchanged in these cases:
1. Uniprocessor guests.  They don't have IPIs.
2. Application threads might be scheduled on the sole vCPU that handles
   completion interrupts purely by chance.  (This is one reason why benchmark
   results can vary noticably between runs.)
3. Users may bind the application to the vCPU that handles completion
   interrupts.

Set the number of queues to the number of vCPUs by default on virtio-blk and
virtio-scsi PCI devices.  Older machine types continue to default to 1 queue
for live migration compatibility.

Random read performance:
      IOPS
q=3D1    78k
q=3D32  104k  +33%

Boot time:
      Duration
q=3D1        51s
q=3D32     1m41s  +98%

Guest configuration: 32 vCPUs, 101 virtio-blk-pci disks

Previously measured results on a 4 vCPU guest were also positive but showed a
smaller 1-4% performance improvement.  They are no longer valid because
significant event loop optimizations have been merged.

Peter Maydell (1):
  Open 5.2 development tree

Stefan Hajnoczi (6):
  hw: add 5.2 machine types and 5.1 compat options
  virtio-pci: add virtio_pci_optimal_num_queues() helper
  virtio-scsi: introduce a constant for fixed virtqueues
  virtio-scsi-pci: default num_queues to -smp N
  virtio-blk-pci: default num_queues to -smp N
  vhost-user-blk-pci: default num_queues to -smp N

 hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h             |  9 +++++++++
 include/hw/boards.h                |  3 +++
 include/hw/i386/pc.h               |  3 +++
 include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-blk.h |  2 ++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h     |  2 ++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-scsi.h    |  5 +++++
 hw/arm/virt.c                      |  9 ++++++++-
 hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c          |  6 +++++-
 hw/block/virtio-blk.c              |  6 +++++-
 hw/core/machine.c                  |  9 +++++++++
 hw/i386/pc.c                       |  4 ++++
 hw/i386/pc_piix.c                  | 14 ++++++++++++-
 hw/i386/pc_q35.c                   | 13 +++++++++++-
 hw/ppc/spapr.c                     | 15 ++++++++++++--
 hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c         | 14 ++++++++++++-
 hw/scsi/vhost-scsi.c               |  3 ++-
 hw/scsi/vhost-user-scsi.c          |  5 +++--
 hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c              | 13 ++++++++----
 hw/virtio/vhost-scsi-pci.c         |  9 +++++++--
 hw/virtio/vhost-user-blk-pci.c     |  4 ++++
 hw/virtio/vhost-user-scsi-pci.c    |  9 +++++++--
 hw/virtio/virtio-blk-pci.c         |  7 ++++++-
 hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c             | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 hw/virtio/virtio-scsi-pci.c        |  9 +++++++--
 VERSION                            |  2 +-
 25 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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