Stefan Hajnoczi
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The virtio-scsi event virtqueue is not emptied by its handler function. This is typical for rx virtqueues where the device uses buffers when some event occurs (e.g. a packet is received, an error condition happens, etc). Polling non-empty virtqueues wastes CPU cycles. We are not waiting for new buffers to become available, we are waiting for an event to occur, so it's a misuse of CPU resources to poll for buffers. Introduce the new virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier_no_poll() API, which is identical to virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier() except that it does not poll the virtqueue. Before this patch the following command-line consumed 100% CPU in the IOThread polling and calling virtio_scsi_handle_event(): $ qemu-system-x86_64 -M accel=kvm -m 1G -cpu host \ --object iothread,id=iothread0 \ --device virtio-scsi-pci,iothread=iothread0 \ --blockdev file,filename=test.img,aio=native,cache.direct=on,node-name=drive0 \ --device scsi-hd,drive=drive0 After this patch CPU is no longer wasted. Reported-by:Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> Message-id: 20220427143541.119567-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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