virtio: increase virtqueue size for virtio-scsi and virtio-blk

The goal is to reduce the amount of requests issued by a guest on
1M reads/writes. This rises the performance up to 4% on that kind of
disk access pattern.

The maximum chunk size to be used for the guest disk accessing is
limited with seg_max parameter, which represents the max amount of
pices in the scatter-geather list in one guest disk request.

Since seg_max is virqueue_size dependent, increasing the virtqueue
size increases seg_max, which, in turn, increases the maximum size
of data to be read/write from a guest disk.

More details in the original problem statment:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg03721.html

Suggested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20200214074648.958-1-dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

diff --git a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
index 09f46ed85f2773d53252c05b962fee3ceebcdf47..142863a3b2803c76e950cbab0a2681f6d5f5f5d1 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
+++ b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ static Property virtio_blk_properties[] = {
     DEFINE_PROP_BIT("request-merging", VirtIOBlock, conf.request_merging, 0,
                     true),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("num-queues", VirtIOBlock, conf.num_queues, 1),
-    DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("queue-size", VirtIOBlock, conf.queue_size, 128),
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("queue-size", VirtIOBlock, conf.queue_size, 256),
     DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("seg-max-adjust", VirtIOBlock, conf.seg_max_adjust, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_LINK("iothread", VirtIOBlock, conf.iothread, TYPE_IOTHREAD,
                      IOThread *),

diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
index 84812a1d1cc1aec478ad0c35fdca3424d0e947fc..ce403ccea94a2bbc718b7694a0652152a1d0bc95 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/core/machine.c
+++ b/hw/core/machine.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
 
 GlobalProperty hw_compat_4_2[] = {
+    { "virtio-blk-device", "queue-size", "128"},
+    { "virtio-scsi-device", "virtqueue_size", "128"},
     { "virtio-blk-device", "x-enable-wce-if-config-wce", "off" },
     { "virtio-blk-device", "seg-max-adjust", "off"},
     { "virtio-scsi-device", "seg_max_adjust", "off"},

diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
index 3b615636097f98cea8ccae6faa0a887d7854e800..472bbd233bf3a4217195a092d9be398e48d9c2f4 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ 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),
+                                         parent_obj.conf.virtqueue_size, 256),
     DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("seg_max_adjust", VirtIOSCSI,
                       parent_obj.conf.seg_max_adjust, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("max_sectors", VirtIOSCSI, parent_obj.conf.max_sectors,