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iothread: enable AioContext polling by default

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IOThread AioContexts are likely to consist only of event sources like
virtqueue ioeventfds and LinuxAIO completion eventfds that are pollable
from userspace (without system calls).

We recently merged the AioContext polling feature but didn't enable it
by default yet.  I have gone back over the performance data on the
mailing list and picked a default polling value that gave good results.

Let's enable AioContext polling by default so users don't have another
switch they need to set manually.  If performance regressions are found
we can still disable this for the QEMU 2.9 release.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Karl Rister <krister@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170126170119.27876-1-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Stefan Hajnoczi 2017-01-26 17:01:19 +00:00
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commit cdd7abfdba
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@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ typedef ObjectClass IOThreadClass;
#define IOTHREAD_CLASS(klass) \
OBJECT_CLASS_CHECK(IOThreadClass, klass, TYPE_IOTHREAD)
/* Benchmark results from 2016 on NVMe SSD drives show max polling times around
* 16-32 microseconds yield IOPS improvements for both iodepth=1 and iodepth=32
* workloads.
*/
#define IOTHREAD_POLL_MAX_NS_DEFAULT 32768ULL
static __thread IOThread *my_iothread;
AioContext *qemu_get_current_aio_context(void)
@ -71,6 +77,13 @@ static int iothread_stop(Object *object, void *opaque)
return 0;
}
static void iothread_instance_init(Object *obj)
{
IOThread *iothread = IOTHREAD(obj);
iothread->poll_max_ns = IOTHREAD_POLL_MAX_NS_DEFAULT;
}
static void iothread_instance_finalize(Object *obj)
{
IOThread *iothread = IOTHREAD(obj);
@ -215,6 +228,7 @@ static const TypeInfo iothread_info = {
.parent = TYPE_OBJECT,
.class_init = iothread_class_init,
.instance_size = sizeof(IOThread),
.instance_init = iothread_instance_init,
.instance_finalize = iothread_instance_finalize,
.interfaces = (InterfaceInfo[]) {
{TYPE_USER_CREATABLE},