Setting it to true can cause the device size to be queried from libblkio
in otherwise fast paths, degrading performance. Set it to false and
require users to refresh the device size explicitly instead.
Fixes: 4c8f4fda05 ("block/blkio: Tolerate device size changes")
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alberto Faria <afaria@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221108144433.1334074-1-afaria@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The nvme-io_uring driver expects a character special file such as
/dev/ng0n1. Follow the convention of having a "filename" option when a
regular file is expected, and a "path" option otherwise.
This makes io_uring the only libblkio-based driver with a "filename"
option, as it accepts a regular file (even though it can also take a
block special file).
Signed-off-by: Alberto Faria <afaria@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221028233854.839933-1-afaria@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Some libblkio drivers may be able to work with regular files (e.g.,
io_uring) or otherwise resizable devices. Conservatively set
BlockDriver::has_variable_length to true to ensure bdrv_nb_sectors()
always gives up-to-date results.
Also implement BlockDriver::bdrv_co_truncate for the case where no
preallocation is needed and the device already has a size compatible
with what was requested.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Faria <afaria@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221029122031.975273-1-afaria@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Avoid bounce buffers when QEMUIOVector elements are within previously
registered bdrv_register_buf() buffers.
The idea is that emulated storage controllers will register guest RAM
using bdrv_register_buf() and set the BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF on I/O
requests. Therefore no blkio_map_mem_region() calls are necessary in the
performance-critical I/O code path.
This optimization doesn't apply if the I/O buffer is internally
allocated by QEMU (e.g. qcow2 metadata). There we still take the slow
path because BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF is not set.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221013185908.1297568-13-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
libblkio (https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio/) is a library for
high-performance disk I/O. It currently supports io_uring,
virtio-blk-vhost-user, and virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa with additional drivers
under development.
One of the reasons for developing libblkio is that other applications
besides QEMU can use it. This will be particularly useful for
virtio-blk-vhost-user which applications may wish to use for connecting
to qemu-storage-daemon.
libblkio also gives us an opportunity to develop in Rust behind a C API
that is easy to consume from QEMU.
This commit adds io_uring, nvme-io_uring, virtio-blk-vhost-user, and
virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa BlockDrivers to QEMU using libblkio. It will be
easy to add other libblkio drivers since they will share the majority of
code.
For now I/O buffers are copied through bounce buffers if the libblkio
driver requires it. Later commits add an optimization for
pre-registering guest RAM to avoid bounce buffers.
The syntax is:
--blockdev io_uring,node-name=drive0,filename=test.img,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on|off
--blockdev nvme-io_uring,node-name=drive0,filename=/dev/ng0n1,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on
--blockdev virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa,node-name=drive0,path=/dev/vdpa...,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on
--blockdev virtio-blk-vhost-user,node-name=drive0,path=vhost-user-blk.sock,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221013185908.1297568-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Alberto Faria
Stefan Hajnoczi