Firstly, it isn't necessary to hold lock of vblk->vq_lock
when notifying hypervisor about queued I/O.
Secondly, virtqueue_notify() will cause world switch and
it may take long time on some hypervisors(such as, qemu-arm),
so it isn't good to hold the lock and block other vCPUs.
On arm64 quad core VM(qemu-kvm), the patch can increase I/O
performance a lot with VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX enabled:
- without the patch: 14K IOPS
- with the patch: 34K IOPS
fio script:
[global]
direct=1
bsrange=4k-4k
timeout=10
numjobs=4
ioengine=libaio
iodepth=64
filename=/dev/vdc
group_reporting=1
[f1]
rw=randread
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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