From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 09:27:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] virtio-scsi: don't waste CPU polling the event virtqueue Content-type: text/plain The virtio-scsi event virtqueue is not emptied by its handler function. This is typical for rx virtqueues where the device uses buffers when some event occurs (e.g. a packet is received, an error condition happens, etc). Polling non-empty virtqueues wastes CPU cycles. We are not waiting for new buffers to become available, we are waiting for an event to occur, so it's a misuse of CPU resources to poll for buffers. Introduce the new virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll() API, which is identical to virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier() except that it does not poll the virtqueue. Before this patch the following command-line consumed 100% CPU in the IOThread polling and calling virtio_scsi_handle_event(): $ qemu-system-x86_64 -M accel=kvm -m 1G -cpu host \ --object iothread,id=iothread0 \ --device virtio-scsi-pci,iothread=iothread0 \ --blockdev file,filename=test.img,aio=native,cache.direct=on,node-name=drive0 \ --device scsi-hd,drive=drive0 After this patch CPU is no longer wasted. Reported-by: Nir Soffer Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Tested-by: Nir Soffer Message-id: 20220427143541.119567-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi (cherry picked from commit 38738f7dbbda90fbc161757b7f4be35b52205552) Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --- hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c | 2 +- hw/virtio/virtio.c | 13 +++++++++++++ include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c index 29575cbaf6..8bb6e6acfc 100644 --- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c +++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi-dataplane.c @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ int virtio_scsi_dataplane_start(VirtIODevice *vdev) aio_context_acquire(s->ctx); virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(vs->ctrl_vq, s->ctx); - virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(vs->event_vq, s->ctx); + virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll(vs->event_vq, s->ctx); for (i = 0; i < vs->conf.num_queues; i++) { virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(vs->cmd_vqs[i], s->ctx); diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c index 9d637e043e..67a873f54a 100644 --- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c @@ -3534,6 +3534,19 @@ void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx) virtio_queue_host_notifier_aio_poll_end); } +/* + * Same as virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier() but without polling. Use + * this for rx virtqueues and similar cases where the virtqueue handler + * function does not pop all elements. When the virtqueue is left non-empty + * polling consumes CPU cycles and should not be used. + */ +void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx) +{ + aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &vq->host_notifier, true, + virtio_queue_host_notifier_read, + NULL, NULL); +} + void virtio_queue_aio_detach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx) { aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &vq->host_notifier, true, NULL, NULL, NULL); diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h index b31c4507f5..b62a35fdca 100644 --- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h +++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h @@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ EventNotifier *virtio_queue_get_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq); void virtio_queue_set_host_notifier_enabled(VirtQueue *vq, bool enabled); void virtio_queue_host_notifier_read(EventNotifier *n); void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx); +void virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx); void virtio_queue_aio_detach_host_notifier(VirtQueue *vq, AioContext *ctx); VirtQueue *virtio_vector_first_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint16_t vector); VirtQueue *virtio_vector_next_queue(VirtQueue *vq);