From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 02:49:29 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: block: virtio_blk: don't hold spin lock during world switch
X-Git-Tag: v3.15.3~138
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed950366acc7694b514a43878b41a1392d89bd19;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

block: virtio_blk: don't hold spin lock during world switch

commit e8edca6f7f92234202d6dd163c118ef495244d7c upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index cb9b1f8326c3c..31e5bc1351b4c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *req)
 	unsigned int num;
 	const bool last = (req->cmd_flags & REQ_END) != 0;
 	int err;
+	bool notify = false;
 
 	BUG_ON(req->nr_phys_segments + 2 > vblk->sg_elems);
 
@@ -211,10 +212,12 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *req)
 		return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_ERROR;
 	}
 
-	if (last)
-		virtqueue_kick(vblk->vq);
-
+	if (last && virtqueue_kick_prepare(vblk->vq))
+		notify = true;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
+
+	if (notify)
+		virtqueue_notify(vblk->vq);
 	return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_OK;
 }