Just setting the max threads to 0 is enough to stop all workers.
Message-Id: <20220514065012.1149539-4-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Since commit f9fc8932b1 ("thread-posix: remove the posix semaphore
support", 2022-04-06) QemuSemaphore has its own mutex and condition
variable; this adds unnecessary overhead on I/O with small block sizes.
Check the QTAILQ directly instead of adding the indirection of a
semaphore's count. Using a semaphore has not been necessary since
qemu_cond_timedwait was introduced; the new code has to be careful about
spurious wakeups but it is simpler, for example thread_pool_cancel does
not have to worry about synchronizing the semaphore count with the number
of elements of pool->request_list.
Note that the return value of qemu_cond_timedwait (0 for timeout, 1 for
signal or spurious wakeup) is different from that of qemu_sem_timedwait
(-1 for timeout, 0 for success).
Reported-by: Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220514065012.1149539-3-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The completion bottom half was scheduled within the pool->lock
critical section. That actually results in worse performance,
because the worker thread can run its own small critical section
and go to sleep before the bottom half starts running.
Note that this simple change does not produce an improvement without
changing the thread pool QemuSemaphore to a condition variable.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220514065012.1149539-2-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The thread pool regulates itself: when idle, it kills threads until
empty, when in demand, it creates new threads until full. This behaviour
doesn't play well with latency sensitive workloads where the price of
creating a new thread is too high. For example, when paired with qemu's
'-mlock', or using safety features like SafeStack, creating a new thread
has been measured take multiple milliseconds.
In order to mitigate this let's introduce a new 'EventLoopBase'
property to set the thread pool size. The threads will be created during
the pool's initialization or upon updating the property's value, remain
available during its lifetime regardless of demand, and destroyed upon
freeing it. A properly characterized workload will then be able to
configure the pool to avoid any latency spikes.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20220425075723.20019-4-nsaenzju@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
- ran regexp "qemu_mutex_lock\(.*\).*\n.*if" to find targets
- replaced result with QEMU_LOCK_GUARD if all unlocks at function end
- replaced result with WITH_QEMU_LOCK_GUARD if unlock not at end
Signed-off-by: Daniel Brodsky <dnbrdsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200404042108.389635-3-dnbrdsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
No header includes qemu-common.h after this commit, as prescribed by
qemu-common.h's file comment.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190523143508.25387-5-armbru@redhat.com>
[Rebased with conflicts resolved automatically, except for
include/hw/arm/xlnx-zynqmp.h hw/arm/nrf51_soc.c hw/arm/msf2-soc.c
block/qcow2-refcount.c block/qcow2-cluster.c block/qcow2-cache.c
target/arm/cpu.h target/lm32/cpu.h target/m68k/cpu.h target/mips/cpu.h
target/moxie/cpu.h target/nios2/cpu.h target/openrisc/cpu.h
target/riscv/cpu.h target/tilegx/cpu.h target/tricore/cpu.h
target/unicore32/cpu.h target/xtensa/cpu.h; bsd-user/main.c and
net/tap-bsd.c fixed up]
commit 3c80ca15 fixed a deadlock scenarion with nested aio_poll invocations.
However, the rescheduling of the completion BH introcuded unnecessary spinning
in the main-loop. On very fast file backends this can even lead to the
"WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations" message popping up.
Callgrind reports about 3-4% less instructions with this patch running
qemu-img bench on a ramdisk based VMDK file.
Fixes: 3c80ca158c
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-16-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-15-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
AioContext is fairly self contained, the only dependency is QEMUTimer but
that in turn doesn't need anything else. So move them out of block-obj-y
to avoid introducing a dependency from io/ to block-obj-y.
main-loop and its dependency iohandler also need to be moved, because
later in this series io/ will call iohandler_get_aio_context.
[Changed copyright "the QEMU team" to "other QEMU contributors" as
suggested by Daniel Berrange and agreed by Paolo.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-2-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini
Nicolas Saenz Julienne
Daniel Brodsky
Markus Armbruster
Peter Lieven