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Paolo Bonzini
3fe7122337 aio: convert from RFifoLock to QemuRecMutex
It is simpler and a bit faster, and QEMU does not need the contention
callbacks (and thus the fairness) anymore.

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1477565348-5458-21-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
2016-10-28 21:50:18 +08:00
Paolo Bonzini
65c1b5b622 iothread: release AioContext around aio_poll
This is the first step towards having fine-grained critical sections in
dataplane threads, which will resolve lock ordering problems between
address_space_* functions (which need the BQL when doing MMIO, even
after we complete RCU-based dispatch) and the AioContext.

Because AioContext does not use contention callbacks anymore, the
unit test has to be changed.

Previously applied as a0710f7995 and
then reverted.

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1477565348-5458-19-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
2016-10-28 21:50:18 +08:00
Paolo Bonzini
e437016511 aio: introduce qemu_get_current_aio_context
This will be used by BDRV_POLL_WHILE (and thus by bdrv_drain)
to choose how to wait for I/O completion.

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1477565348-5458-12-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
2016-10-28 21:50:18 +08:00
Paolo Bonzini
5b8bb3595a async: add aio_bh_schedule_oneshot
qemu_bh_delete is already clearing bh->scheduled at the same time
as it's setting bh->deleted.  Since it's not using any memory
barriers, there is no synchronization going on for bh->deleted,
and this makes the bh->deleted checks superfluous in aio_compute_timeout,
aio_bh_poll and aio_ctx_check.

Just remove them, and put the (bh->scheduled && bh->deleted) combo
to work in a new function aio_bh_schedule_oneshot.  The new function
removes the need to save the QEMUBH pointer between the creation
and the execution of the bottom half.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2016-10-07 13:34:07 +02:00
Cao jin
54a16a63d0 AioContext: correct comments
Correct comments of field notify_me

Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Message-id: 1468575858-22975-1-git-send-email-caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2016-07-26 17:46:37 +02:00
Cao jin
7e00346505 aio-posix: remove useless parameter
Parameter **errp of aio_context_setup() is useless, remove it
and clean up the related code.

Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1468578524-23433-1-git-send-email-caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-07-18 15:10:52 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
0187f5c9cb linux-aio: share one LinuxAioState within an AioContext
This has better performance because it executes fewer system calls
and does not use a bottom half per disk.

Originally proposed by Ming Lei.

[Changed #include "raw-aio.h" to "block/raw-aio.h" in win32-aio.c to fix
build error as reported by Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>.
--Stefan]

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1467650000-51385-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

squash! linux-aio: share one LinuxAioState within an AioContext
2016-07-18 15:09:31 +01:00
Markus Armbruster
14b6d44d47 Use scripts/clean-includes to drop redundant qemu/typedefs.h
Re-run scripts/clean-includes to apply the previous commit's
corrections and updates.  Besides redundant qemu/typedefs.h, this only
finds a redundant config-host.h include in ui/egl-helpers.c.  No idea
how that escaped the previous runs.

Some manual whitespace trimming around dropped includes squashed in.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-03-22 22:20:16 +01:00
Fam Zheng
fbe3fc5cb3 aio: Introduce aio-epoll.c
To minimize code duplication, epoll is hooked into aio-posix's
aio_poll() instead of rolling its own. This approach also has both
compile-time and run-time switchability.

1) When QEMU starts with a small number of fds in the event loop, ppoll
is used.

2) When QEMU starts with a big number of fds, or when more devices are
hot plugged, epoll kicks in when the number of fds hits the threshold.

3) Some fds may not support epoll, such as tty based stdio. In this
case, it falls back to ppoll.

A rough benchmark with scsi-disk on virtio-scsi dataplane (epoll gets
enabled from 64 onward). Numbers are in MB/s.

===============================================
             |     master     |     epoll
             |                |
scsi disks # | read    randrw | read    randrw
-------------|----------------|----------------
1            | 86      36     | 92      45
8            | 87      43     | 86      41
64           | 71      32     | 70      38
128          | 48      24     | 58      31
256          | 37      19     | 57      28
===============================================

To comply with aio_{disable,enable}_external, we always use ppoll when
aio_external_disabled() is true.

[Removed #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL around AioContext epollfd field declaration
since the field is also referenced outside CONFIG_EPOLL code.
--Stefan]

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1446177989-6702-4-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-11-09 09:59:47 +00:00
Fam Zheng
37fcee5d11 aio: Introduce aio_context_setup
This is the place to initialize platform specific bits of AioContext.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1446177989-6702-3-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-11-09 09:59:32 +00:00
Fam Zheng
5ceb9e3928 aio: Introduce aio_external_disabled
This allows AioContext users to check the enable/disable state of
external clients.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1446177989-6702-2-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-11-09 09:59:32 +00:00
Pavel Dovgalyuk
df281b80b9 bottom halves: introduce bh call function
This patch introduces aio_bh_call function. It is used to execute
bottom halves as callbacks without adding them to the queue.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
Message-Id: <20150917162450.8676.56980.stgit@PASHA-ISP.def.inno>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
2015-11-06 10:16:03 +01:00
Fam Zheng
c1e1e5fa8f aio: introduce aio_{disable,enable}_external
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-10-23 18:18:24 +02:00
Fam Zheng
dca21ef23b aio: Add "is_external" flag for event handlers
All callers pass in false, and the real external ones will switch to
true in coming patches.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-10-23 18:18:23 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
ca96ac44dc AioContext: force event loop iteration using BH
The notify_me optimization introduced in commit eabc977973
("AioContext: fix broken ctx->dispatching optimization") skips
event_notifier_set() calls when the event loop thread is not blocked in
ppoll(2).

This optimization causes a deadlock if two aio_context_acquire() calls
race.  notify_me = 0 during the race so the winning thread can enter
ppoll(2) unaware that the other thread is waiting its turn to acquire
the AioContext.

This patch forces ppoll(2) to return by scheduling a BH instead of
calling aio_notify().

The following deadlock with virtio-blk dataplane is fixed:

  qemu ... -object iothread,id=iothread0 \
           -drive if=none,id=drive0,file=test.img,... \
           -device virtio-blk-pci,iothread=iothread0,drive=drive0

This command-line results in a hang early on without this patch.

Thanks to Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> for investigating this bug
with me.

Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1438101249-25166-4-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Message-Id: <1438014819-18125-3-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-07-29 10:02:06 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
05e514b1d4 AioContext: optimize clearing the EventNotifier
It is pretty rare for aio_notify to actually set the EventNotifier.  It
can happen with worker threads such as thread-pool.c's, but otherwise it
should never be set thanks to the ctx->notify_me optimization.  The
previous patch, unfortunately, added an unconditional call to
event_notifier_test_and_clear; now add a userspace fast path that
avoids the call.

Note that it is not possible to do the same with event_notifier_set;
it would break, as proved (again) by the included formal model.

This patch survived over 3000 reboots on aarch64 KVM.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1437487673-23740-7-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-07-22 12:41:40 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
eabc977973 AioContext: fix broken ctx->dispatching optimization
This patch rewrites the ctx->dispatching optimization, which was the cause
of some mysterious hangs that could be reproduced on aarch64 KVM only.
The hangs were indirectly caused by aio_poll() and in particular by
flash memory updates's call to blk_write(), which invokes aio_poll().
Fun stuff: they had an extremely short race window, so much that
adding all kind of tracing to either the kernel or QEMU made it
go away (a single printf made it half as reproducible).

On the plus side, the failure mode (a hang until the next keypress)
made it very easy to examine the state of the process with a debugger.
And there was a very nice reproducer from Laszlo, which failed pretty
often (more than half of the time) on any version of QEMU with a non-debug
kernel; it also failed fast, while still in the firmware.  So, it could
have been worse.

For some unknown reason they happened only with virtio-scsi, but
that's not important.  It's more interesting that they disappeared with
io=native, making thread-pool.c a likely suspect for where the bug arose.
thread-pool.c is also one of the few places which use bottom halves
across threads, by the way.

I hope that no other similar bugs exist, but just in case :) I am
going to describe how the successful debugging went...  Since the
likely culprit was the ctx->dispatching optimization, which mostly
affects bottom halves, the first observation was that there are two
qemu_bh_schedule() invocations in the thread pool: the one in the aio
worker and the one in thread_pool_completion_bh.  The latter always
causes the optimization to trigger, the former may or may not.  In
order to restrict the possibilities, I introduced new functions
qemu_bh_schedule_slow() and qemu_bh_schedule_fast():

     /* qemu_bh_schedule_slow: */
     ctx = bh->ctx;
     bh->idle = 0;
     if (atomic_xchg(&bh->scheduled, 1) == 0) {
         event_notifier_set(&ctx->notifier);
     }

     /* qemu_bh_schedule_fast: */
     ctx = bh->ctx;
     bh->idle = 0;
     assert(ctx->dispatching);
     atomic_xchg(&bh->scheduled, 1);

Notice how the atomic_xchg is still in qemu_bh_schedule_slow().  This
was already debated a few months ago, so I assumed it to be correct.
In retrospect this was a very good idea, as you'll see later.

Changing thread_pool_completion_bh() to qemu_bh_schedule_fast() didn't
trigger the assertion (as expected).  Changing the worker's invocation
to qemu_bh_schedule_slow() didn't hide the bug (another assumption
which luckily held).  This already limited heavily the amount of
interaction between the threads, hinting that the problematic events
must have triggered around thread_pool_completion_bh().

As mentioned early, invoking a debugger to examine the state of a
hung process was pretty easy; the iothread was always waiting on a
poll(..., -1) system call.  Infinite timeouts are much rarer on x86,
and this could be the reason why the bug was never observed there.
With the buggy sequence more or less resolved to an interaction between
thread_pool_completion_bh() and poll(..., -1), my "tracing" strategy was
to just add a few qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME) calls, hoping
that the ordering of aio_ctx_prepare(), aio_ctx_dispatch, poll() and
qemu_bh_schedule_fast() would provide some hint.  The output was:

    (gdb) p last_prepare
    $3 = 103885451
    (gdb) p last_dispatch
    $4 = 103876492
    (gdb) p last_poll
    $5 = 115909333
    (gdb) p last_schedule
    $6 = 115925212

Notice how the last call to qemu_poll_ns() came after aio_ctx_dispatch().
This makes little sense unless there is an aio_poll() call involved,
and indeed with a slightly different instrumentation you can see that
there is one:

    (gdb) p last_prepare
    $3 = 107569679
    (gdb) p last_dispatch
    $4 = 107561600
    (gdb) p last_aio_poll
    $5 = 110671400
    (gdb) p last_schedule
    $6 = 110698917

So the scenario becomes clearer:

   iothread                   VCPU thread
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   aio_ctx_prepare
   aio_ctx_check
   qemu_poll_ns(timeout=-1)
                              aio_poll
                                aio_dispatch
                                  thread_pool_completion_bh
                                    qemu_bh_schedule()

At this point bh->scheduled = 1 and the iothread has not been woken up.
The solution must be close, but this alone should not be a problem,
because the bottom half is only rescheduled to account for rare situations
(see commit 3c80ca1, thread-pool: avoid deadlock in nested aio_poll()
calls, 2014-07-15).

Introducing a third thread---a thread pool worker thread, which
also does qemu_bh_schedule()---does bring out the problematic case.
The third thread must be awakened *after* the callback is complete and
thread_pool_completion_bh has redone the whole loop, explaining the
short race window.  And then this is what happens:

                                                      thread pool worker
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                      <I/O completes>
                                                      qemu_bh_schedule()

Tada, bh->scheduled is already 1, so qemu_bh_schedule() does nothing
and the iothread is never woken up.  This is where the bh->scheduled
optimization comes into play---it is correct, but removing it would
have masked the bug.

So, what is the bug?

Well, the question asked by the ctx->dispatching optimization ("is any
active aio_poll dispatching?") was wrong.  The right question to ask
instead is "is any active aio_poll *not* dispatching", i.e. in the prepare
or poll phases?  In that case, the aio_poll is sleeping or might go to
sleep anytime soon, and the EventNotifier must be invoked to wake
it up.

In any other case (including if there is *no* active aio_poll at all!)
we can just wait for the next prepare phase to pick up the event (e.g. a
bottom half); the prepare phase will avoid the blocking and service the
bottom half.

Expressing the invariant with a logic formula, the broken one looked like:

   !(exists(thread): in_dispatching(thread)) => !optimize

or equivalently:

   !(exists(thread):
          in_aio_poll(thread) && in_dispatching(thread)) => !optimize

In the correct one, the negation is in a slightly different place:

   (exists(thread):
         in_aio_poll(thread) && !in_dispatching(thread)) => !optimize

or equivalently:

   (exists(thread): in_prepare_or_poll(thread)) => !optimize

Even if the difference boils down to moving an exclamation mark :)
the implementation is quite different.  However, I think the new
one is simpler to understand.

In the old implementation, the "exists" was implemented with a boolean
value.  This didn't really support well the case of multiple concurrent
event loops, but I thought that this was okay: aio_poll holds the
AioContext lock so there cannot be concurrent aio_poll invocations, and
I was just considering nested event loops.  However, aio_poll _could_
indeed be concurrent with the GSource.  This is why I came up with the
wrong invariant.

In the new implementation, "exists" is computed simply by counting how many
threads are in the prepare or poll phases.  There are some interesting
points to consider, but the gist of the idea remains:

1) AioContext can be used through GSource as well; as mentioned in the
patch, bit 0 of the counter is reserved for the GSource.

2) the counter need not be updated for a non-blocking aio_poll, because
it won't sleep forever anyway.  This is just a matter of checking
the "blocking" variable.  This requires some changes to the win32
implementation, but is otherwise not too complicated.

3) as mentioned above, the new implementation will not call aio_notify
when there is *no* active aio_poll at all.  The tests have to be
adjusted for this change.  The calls to aio_notify in async.c are fine;
they only want to kick aio_poll out of a blocking wait, but need not
do anything if aio_poll is not running.

4) nested aio_poll: these just work with the new implementation; when
a nested event loop is invoked, the outer event loop is never in the
prepare or poll phases.  The outer event loop thus has already decremented
the counter.

Reported-by: Richard W. M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1437487673-23740-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-07-22 12:41:40 +01:00
Fam Zheng
6484e42247 main-loop: Drop qemu_set_fd_handler2
All users are converted to qemu_set_fd_handler now, drop
qemu_set_fd_handler2 and IOHandlerRecord.fd_read_poll.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1433400324-7358-9-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-06-12 13:26:21 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
49110174f8 AioContext: acquire/release AioContext during aio_poll
This is the first step in pushing down acquire/release, and will let
rfifolock drop the contention callback feature.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1424449612-18215-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-04-28 15:36:08 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
e98ab09709 aio-posix: move pollfds to thread-local storage
By using thread-local storage, aio_poll can stop using global data during
g_poll_ns.  This will make it possible to drop callbacks from rfifolock.

[Moved npfd = 0 assignment to end of walking_handlers region as
suggested by Paolo.  This resolves the assert(npfd == 0) assertion
failure in pollfds_cleanup().
--Stefan]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1424449612-18215-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-04-28 15:36:08 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
f186aa976b qemu-timer: rename timer_init to timer_init_tl
timer_init is not called that often.  Free the name for an equivalent
of timer_new.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-01-14 10:38:57 +01:00
Markus Armbruster
097310b53e block: Rename BlockDriverCompletionFunc to BlockCompletionFunc
I'll use it with block backends shortly, and the name is going to fit
badly there.  It's a block layer thing anyway, not just a block driver
thing.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-10-20 13:41:27 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
7c84b1b831 block: Rename BlockDriverAIOCB* to BlockAIOCB*
I'll use BlockDriverAIOCB with block backends shortly, and the name is
going to fit badly there.  It's a block layer thing anyway, not just a
block driver thing.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-10-20 13:41:27 +02:00
Chrysostomos Nanakos
2f78e491d7 async: aio_context_new(): Handle event_notifier_init failure
On a system with a low limit of open files the initialization
of the event notifier could fail and QEMU exits without printing any
error information to the user.

The problem can be easily reproduced by enforcing a low limit of open
files and start QEMU with enough I/O threads to hit this limit.

The same problem raises, without the creation of I/O threads, while
QEMU initializes the main event loop by enforcing an even lower limit of
open files.

This commit adds an error message on failure:

 # qemu [...] -object iothread,id=iothread0 -object iothread,id=iothread1
 qemu: Failed to initialize event notifier: Too many open files in system

Signed-off-by: Chrysostomos Nanakos <cnanakos@grnet.gr>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-09-22 11:39:48 +01:00
Fam Zheng
8007429a99 block: Rename qemu_aio_release -> qemu_aio_unref
Suggested-by: Benoît Canet <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-09-22 11:39:17 +01:00
Fam Zheng
ca5fd113b8 block: Drop AIOCBInfo.cancel
Now that all the implementations are converted to asynchronous version
and we can emulate synchronous cancellation with it. Let's drop the
unused member.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-09-22 11:39:16 +01:00
Fam Zheng
02c50efe08 block: Add bdrv_aio_cancel_async
This is the async version of bdrv_aio_cancel, which doesn't block the
caller. It guarantees that the cb is called either before returning or
some time later.

bdrv_aio_cancel can base on bdrv_aio_cancel_async, later we can convert
all .io_cancel implementations to .io_cancel_async, and the aio_poll is
the common logic. In the end, .io_cancel can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-09-22 11:38:58 +01:00
Fam Zheng
f197fe2b2c block: Add refcnt in BlockDriverAIOCB
This will be useful in synchronous cancel emulation with
bdrv_aio_cancel_async.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-09-22 11:38:57 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
b493317d34 aio-win32: add support for sockets
Uses the same select/WSAEventSelect scheme as main-loop.c.
WSAEventSelect() is edge-triggered, so it cannot be used
directly, but it is still used as a way to exit from a
blocking g_poll().

Before g_poll() is called, we poll sockets with a non-blocking
select() to achieve the level-triggered semantics we require:
if a socket is ready, the g_poll() is made non-blocking too.

Based on a patch from Or Goshen.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-08-29 10:46:58 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
a3462c6561 AioContext: introduce aio_prepare
This will be used to implement socket polling on Windows.
On Windows, select() and g_poll() are completely different;
sockets are polled with select() before calling g_poll,
and the g_poll must be nonblocking if select() says a
socket is ready.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-08-29 10:46:58 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
e4c7e2d12d AioContext: export and use aio_dispatch
So far, aio_poll's scheme was dispatch/poll/dispatch, where
the first dispatch phase was used only in the GSource case in
order to avoid a blocking poll.  Earlier patches changed it to
dispatch/prepare/poll/dispatch, where prepare is aio_compute_timeout.

By making aio_dispatch public, we can remove the first dispatch
phase altogether, so that both aio_poll and the GSource use the same
prepare/poll/dispatch scheme.

This patch breaks the invariant that aio_poll(..., true) will not block
the first time it returns false.  This used to be fundamental for
qemu_aio_flush's implementation as "while (qemu_aio_wait()) {}" but
no code in QEMU relies on this invariant anymore.  The return value
of aio_poll() is now comparable with that of g_main_context_iteration.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-08-29 10:46:58 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
845ca10dd0 AioContext: take bottom halves into account when computing aio_poll timeout
Right now, QEMU invokes aio_bh_poll before the "poll" phase
of aio_poll.  It is simpler to do it afterwards and skip the
"poll" phase altogether when the OS-dependent parts of AioContext
are invoked from GSource.  This way, AioContext behaves more
similarly when used as a GSource vs. when used as stand-alone.

As a start, take bottom halves into account when computing the
poll timeout.  If a bottom half is ready, do a non-blocking
poll.  As a side effect, this makes idle bottom halves work
with aio_poll; an improvement, but not really an important
one since they are deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-08-29 10:46:58 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
acfb23ad3d AioContext: do not rely on aio_poll(ctx, true) result to end a loop
Currently, whenever aio_poll(ctx, true) has completed all pending
work it returns true *and* the next call to aio_poll(ctx, true)
will not block.

This invariant has its roots in qemu_aio_flush()'s implementation
as "while (qemu_aio_wait()) {}".  However, qemu_aio_flush() does
not exist anymore and bdrv_drain_all() is implemented differently;
and this invariant is complicated to maintain and subtly different
from the return value of GMainLoop's g_main_context_iteration.

All calls to aio_poll(ctx, true) except one are guarded by a
while() loop checking for a request to be incomplete, or a
BlockDriverState to be idle.  The one remaining call (in
iothread.c) uses this to delay the aio_context_release/acquire
pair until the AioContext is quiescent, however:

- we can do the same just by using non-blocking aio_poll,
  similar to how vl.c invokes main_loop_wait

- it is buggy, because it does not ensure that the AioContext
  is released between an aio_notify and the next time the
  iothread goes to sleep.  This leads to hangs when stopping
  the dataplane thread.

In the end, these semantics are a bad match for the current
users of AioContext.  So modify that one exception in iothread.c,
which also fixes the hangs, as well as the testcase so that
it use the same idiom as the actual QEMU code.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-07-14 12:03:20 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
0ceb849bd3 AioContext: speed up aio_notify
In many cases, the call to event_notifier_set in aio_notify is unnecessary.
In particular, if we are executing aio_dispatch, or if aio_poll is not
blocking, we know that we will soon get to the next loop iteration (if
necessary); the thread that hosts the AioContext's event loop does not
need any nudging.

The patch includes a Promela formal model that shows that this really
works and does not need any further complication such as generation
counts.  It needs a memory barrier though.

The generation counts are not needed because any change to
ctx->dispatching after the memory barrier is okay for aio_notify.
If it changes from zero to one, it is the right thing to skip
event_notifier_set.  If it changes from one to zero, the
event_notifier_set is unnecessary but harmless.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-07-09 15:50:11 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
87f68d3182 block: drop aio functions that operate on the main AioContext
The main AioContext should be accessed explicitly via qemu_get_aio_context().
Most of the time, using it is not the right thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-07-09 15:50:11 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
98563fc3ec aio: add aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release()
It can be useful to run an AioContext from a thread which normally does
not "own" the AioContext.  For example, request draining can be
implemented by acquiring the AioContext and looping aio_poll() until all
requests have been completed.

The following pattern should work:

  /* Event loop thread */
  while (running) {
      aio_context_acquire(ctx);
      aio_poll(ctx, true);
      aio_context_release(ctx);
  }

  /* Another thread */
  aio_context_acquire(ctx);
  bdrv_read(bs, 0x1000, buf, 1);
  aio_context_release(ctx);

This patch implements aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release().

Note that existing aio_poll() callers do not need to worry about
acquiring and releasing - it is only needed when multiple threads will
call aio_poll() on the same AioContext.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-03-13 14:42:24 +01:00
Alex Bligh
4e29e8311a aio / timers: Add aio_timer_init & aio_timer_new wrappers
Add aio_timer_init and aio_timer_new wrapper functions.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-08-22 19:10:28 +02:00
Alex Bligh
dae21b98b9 aio / timers: Add QEMUTimerListGroup to AioContext
Add a QEMUTimerListGroup each AioContext (meaning a QEMUTimerList
associated with each clock is added) and delete it when the
AioContext is freed.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-08-22 19:10:27 +02:00
Alex Bligh
6a1751b7aa aio / timers: Untangle include files
include/qemu/timer.h has no need to include main-loop.h and
doing so causes an issue for the next patch. Unfortunately
various files assume including timers.h will pull in main-loop.h.
Untangle this mess.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-08-22 19:10:27 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
f2e5dca46b aio: drop io_flush argument
The .io_flush() handler no longer exists and has no users.  Drop the
io_flush argument to aio_set_fd_handler() and related functions.

The AioFlushEventNotifierHandler and AioFlushHandler typedefs are no
longer used and are dropped too.

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-08-19 15:52:19 +02:00
Liu Ping Fan
dcc772e2f2 QEMUBH: make AioContext's bh re-entrant
BH will be used outside big lock, so introduce lock to protect
between the writers, ie, bh's adders and deleter. The lock only
affects the writers and bh's callback does not take this extra lock.
Note that for the same AioContext, aio_bh_poll() can not run in
parallel yet.

Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-07-19 12:29:21 +08:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
9b34277d23 aio: add a ThreadPool instance to AioContext
This patch adds a ThreadPool to AioContext.  It's possible that some
AioContext instances will never use the ThreadPool, so defer creation
until aio_get_thread_pool().

The reason why AioContext should have the ThreadPool is because the
ThreadPool is bound to a AioContext instance where the work item's
callback function is invoked.  It doesn't make sense to keep the
ThreadPool pointer anywhere other than AioContext.  For example,
block/raw-posix.c can get its AioContext's ThreadPool and submit work.

Special note about headers: I used struct ThreadPool in aio.h because
there is a circular dependency if aio.h includes thread-pool.h.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-03-15 16:07:50 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
6b5f876252 aio: convert aio_poll() to g_poll(3)
AioHandler already has a GPollFD so we can directly use its
events/revents.

Add the int pollfds_idx field to AioContext so we can map g_poll(3)
results back to AioHandlers.

Reuse aio_dispatch() to invoke handlers after g_poll(3).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1361356113-11049-10-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-02-21 16:17:31 -06:00
Kevin Wolf
2ea9b58f0b aio: Fix return value of aio_poll()
aio_poll() must return true if any work is still pending, even if it
didn't make progress, so that bdrv_drain_all() doesn't stop waiting too
early. The possibility of stopping early occasionally lead to a failed
assertion in bdrv_drain_all(), when some in-flight request was missed
and the function didn't really drain all requests.

In order to make that change, the return value as specified in the
function comment must change for blocking = false; fortunately, the
return value of blocking = false callers is only used in test cases, so
this change shouldn't cause any trouble.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-01-17 10:51:42 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
1de7afc984 misc: move include files to include/qemu/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-12-19 08:32:39 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
737e150e89 block: move include files to include/block/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-12-19 08:31:31 +01:00