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2024-06-10aio: warn about iohandler_ctx special casingStefan Hajnoczi
The main loop has two AioContexts: qemu_aio_context and iohandler_ctx. The main loop runs them both, but nested aio_poll() calls on qemu_aio_context exclude iohandler_ctx. Which one should qemu_get_current_aio_context() return when called from the main loop? Document that it's always qemu_aio_context. This has subtle effects on functions that use qemu_get_current_aio_context(). For example, aio_co_reschedule_self() does not work when moving from iohandler_ctx to qemu_aio_context because qemu_get_current_aio_context() does not differentiate these two AioContexts. Document this in order to reduce the chance of future bugs. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240506190622.56095-3-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2024-02-07virtio: Re-enable notifications after drainHanna Czenczek
During drain, we do not care about virtqueue notifications, which is why we remove the handlers on it. When removing those handlers, whether vq notifications are enabled or not depends on whether we were in polling mode or not; if not, they are enabled (by default); if so, they have been disabled by the io_poll_start callback. Because we do not care about those notifications after removing the handlers, this is fine. However, we have to explicitly ensure they are enabled when re-attaching the handlers, so we will resume receiving notifications. We do this in virtio_queue_aio_attach_host_notifier*(). If such a function is called while we are in a polling section, attaching the notifiers will then invoke the io_poll_start callback, re-disabling notifications. Because we will always miss virtqueue updates in the drained section, we also need to poll the virtqueue once after attaching the notifiers. Buglink: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-3934 Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240202153158.788922-3-hreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2024-01-18io_uring: move LuringState typedef to block/aio.hPaolo Bonzini
The LuringState typedef is defined twice, in include/block/raw-aio.h and block/io_uring.c. Move it in include/block/aio.h, which is included everywhere the typedef is needed, since include/block/aio.h already has to define the forward reference to the struct. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2024-01-08iothread: Remove unused Error** argument in aio_context_set_aio_paramsPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé
aio_context_set_aio_params() doesn't use its undocumented Error** argument. Remove it to simplify. Note this removes a use of "unchecked Error**" in iothread_set_aio_context_params(). Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20231120171806.19361-1-philmd@linaro.org>
2023-12-21aio: remove aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() APIStefan Hajnoczi
Delete these functions because nothing calls these functions anymore. I introduced these APIs in commit 98563fc3ec44 ("aio: add aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release()") in 2014. It's with a sigh of relief that I delete these APIs almost 10 years later. Thanks to Paolo Bonzini's vision for multi-queue QEMU, we got an understanding of where the code needed to go in order to remove the limitations that the original dataplane and the IOThread/AioContext approach that followed it. Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito had the splendid determination to convert large parts of the codebase so that they no longer needed the AioContext lock. This was a painstaking process, both in the actual code changes required and the iterations of code review that Emanuele eked out of Kevin and me over many months. Kevin Wolf tackled multitudes of graph locking conversions to protect in-flight I/O from run-time changes to the block graph as well as the clang Thread Safety Analysis annotations that allow the compiler to check whether the graph lock is being used correctly. And me, well, I'm just here to add some pizzazz to the QEMU multi-queue block layer :). Thank you to everyone who helped with this effort, including Eric Blake, code reviewer extraordinaire, and others who I've forgotten to mention. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20231205182011.1976568-11-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-09-20block: mark aio_poll as non-coroutinePaolo Bonzini
It is forbidden to block on the event loop during a coroutine, as that can cause deadlocks due to recursive locking. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20230908075458.527013-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-09-20block: remove AIOCBInfo->get_aio_context()Stefan Hajnoczi
The synchronous bdrv_aio_cancel() function needs the acb's AioContext so it can call aio_poll() to wait for cancellation. It turns out that all users run under the BQL in the main AioContext, so this callback is not needed. Remove the callback, mark bdrv_aio_cancel() GLOBAL_STATE_CODE just like its blk_aio_cancel() caller, and poll the main loop AioContext. The purpose of this cleanup is to identify bdrv_aio_cancel() as an API that does not work with the multi-queue block layer. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20230912231037.826804-2-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-05-30aio: remove aio_disable_external() APIStefan Hajnoczi
All callers now pass is_external=false to aio_set_fd_handler() and aio_set_event_notifier(). The aio_disable_external() API that temporarily disables fd handlers that were registered is_external=true is therefore dead code. Remove aio_disable_external(), aio_enable_external(), and the is_external arguments to aio_set_fd_handler() and aio_set_event_notifier(). The entire test-fdmon-epoll test is removed because its sole purpose was testing aio_disable_external(). Parts of this patch were generated using the following coccinelle (https://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) semantic patch: @@ expression ctx, fd, is_external, io_read, io_write, io_poll, io_poll_ready, opaque; @@ - aio_set_fd_handler(ctx, fd, is_external, io_read, io_write, io_poll, io_poll_ready, opaque) + aio_set_fd_handler(ctx, fd, io_read, io_write, io_poll, io_poll_ready, opaque) @@ expression ctx, notifier, is_external, io_read, io_poll, io_poll_ready; @@ - aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, notifier, is_external, io_read, io_poll, io_poll_ready) + aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, notifier, io_read, io_poll, io_poll_ready) Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230516190238.8401-21-stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-04-28async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH APIAlexander Bulekov
Devices can pass their MemoryReentrancyGuard (from their DeviceState), when creating new BHes. Then, the async API will toggle the guard before/after calling the BH call-back. This prevents bh->mmio reentrancy issues. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu> Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com> Message-Id: <20230427211013.2994127-3-alxndr@bu.edu> [thuth: Fix "line over 90 characters" checkpatch.pl error] Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2023-04-25io_uring: use LuringState from the running threadEmanuele Giuseppe Esposito
Remove usage of aio_context_acquire by always submitting asynchronous AIO to the current thread's LuringState. In order to prevent mistakes from the caller side, avoid passing LuringState in luring_io_{plug/unplug} and luring_co_submit, and document the functions to make clear that they work in the current thread's AioContext. Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230203131731.851116-3-eesposit@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-04-25linux-aio: use LinuxAioState from the running threadEmanuele Giuseppe Esposito
Remove usage of aio_context_acquire by always submitting asynchronous AIO to the current thread's LinuxAioState. In order to prevent mistakes from the caller side, avoid passing LinuxAioState in laio_io_{plug/unplug} and laio_co_submit, and document the functions to make clear that they work in the current thread's AioContext. Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230203131731.851116-2-eesposit@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-03-13aio: make aio_set_fd_poll() static to aio-posix.cMarc-André Lureau
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20230221124802.4103554-9-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
2023-01-20coroutine: Use Coroutine typedef name instead of structure tagMarkus Armbruster
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20221221131435.3851212-6-armbru@redhat.com>
2023-01-20coroutine: Split qemu/coroutine-core.h off qemu/coroutine.hMarkus Armbruster
qemu/coroutine.h and qemu/lockable.h include each other. They need each other only in macro expansions, so we could simply drop both inclusions to break the loop, and add suitable includes to files that expand the macros. Instead, move a part of qemu/coroutine.h to new qemu/coroutine-core.h so that qemu/coroutine-core.h doesn't need qemu/lockable.h, and qemu/lockable.h only needs qemu/coroutine-core.h. Result: qemu/coroutine.h includes qemu/lockable.h includes qemu/coroutine-core.h. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20221221131435.3851212-5-armbru@redhat.com> [Semantic rebase conflict with 7c10cb38cc "accel/tcg: Add debuginfo support" resolved]
2022-12-15graph-lock: Introduce a lock to protect block graph operationsPaolo Bonzini
Block layer graph operations are always run under BQL in the main loop. This is proved by the assertion qemu_in_main_thread() and its wrapper macro GLOBAL_STATE_CODE. However, there are also concurrent coroutines running in other iothreads that always try to traverse the graph. Currently this is protected (among various other things) by the AioContext lock, but once this is removed, we need to make sure that reads do not happen while modifying the graph. We distinguish between writer (main loop, under BQL) that modifies the graph, and readers (all other coroutines running in various AioContext), that go through the graph edges, reading ->parents and->children. The writer (main loop) has "exclusive" access, so it first waits for any current read to finish, and then prevents incoming ones from entering while it has the exclusive access. The readers (coroutines in multiple AioContext) are free to access the graph as long the writer is not modifying the graph. In case it is, they go in a CoQueue and sleep until the writer is done. If a coroutine changes AioContext, the counter in the original and new AioContext are left intact, since the writer does not care where the reader is, but only if there is one. As a result, some AioContexts might have a negative reader count, to balance the positive count of the AioContext that took the lock. This also means that when an AioContext is deleted it may have a nonzero reader count. In that case we transfer the count to a global shared counter so that the writer is always aware of all readers. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20221207131838.239125-3-kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2022-05-09util/event-loop-base: Introduce options to set the thread pool sizeNicolas Saenz Julienne
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>
2022-01-12aio-posix: split poll check from ready handlerStefan Hajnoczi
Adaptive polling measures the execution time of the polling check plus handlers called when a polled event becomes ready. Handlers can take a significant amount of time, making it look like polling was running for a long time when in fact the event handler was running for a long time. For example, on Linux the io_submit(2) syscall invoked when a virtio-blk device's virtqueue becomes ready can take 10s of microseconds. This can exceed the default polling interval (32 microseconds) and cause adaptive polling to stop polling. By excluding the handler's execution time from the polling check we make the adaptive polling calculation more accurate. As a result, the event loop now stays in polling mode where previously it would have fallen back to file descriptor monitoring. The following data was collected with virtio-blk num-queues=2 event_idx=off using an IOThread. Before: 168k IOPS, IOThread syscalls: 9837.115 ( 0.020 ms): IO iothread1/620155 io_submit(ctx_id: 140512552468480, nr: 16, iocbpp: 0x7fcb9f937db0) = 16 9837.158 ( 0.002 ms): IO iothread1/620155 write(fd: 103, buf: 0x556a2ef71b88, count: 8) = 8 9837.161 ( 0.001 ms): IO iothread1/620155 write(fd: 104, buf: 0x556a2ef71b88, count: 8) = 8 9837.163 ( 0.001 ms): IO iothread1/620155 ppoll(ufds: 0x7fcb90002800, nfds: 4, tsp: 0x7fcb9f1342d0, sigsetsize: 8) = 3 9837.164 ( 0.001 ms): IO iothread1/620155 read(fd: 107, buf: 0x7fcb9f939cc0, count: 512) = 8 9837.174 ( 0.001 ms): IO iothread1/620155 read(fd: 105, buf: 0x7fcb9f939cc0, count: 512) = 8 9837.176 ( 0.001 ms): IO iothread1/620155 read(fd: 106, buf: 0x7fcb9f939cc0, count: 512) = 8 9837.209 ( 0.035 ms): IO iothread1/620155 io_submit(ctx_id: 140512552468480, nr: 32, iocbpp: 0x7fca7d0cebe0) = 32 174k IOPS (+3.6%), IOThread syscalls: 9809.566 ( 0.036 ms): IO iothread1/623061 io_submit(ctx_id: 140539805028352, nr: 32, iocbpp: 0x7fd0cdd62be0) = 32 9809.625 ( 0.001 ms): IO iothread1/623061 write(fd: 103, buf: 0x5647cfba5f58, count: 8) = 8 9809.627 ( 0.002 ms): IO iothread1/623061 write(fd: 104, buf: 0x5647cfba5f58, count: 8) = 8 9809.663 ( 0.036 ms): IO iothread1/623061 io_submit(ctx_id: 140539805028352, nr: 32, iocbpp: 0x7fd0d0388b50) = 32 Notice that ppoll(2) and eventfd read(2) syscalls are eliminated because the IOThread stays in polling mode instead of falling back to file descriptor monitoring. As usual, polling is not implemented on Windows so this patch ignores the new io_poll_read() callback in aio-win32.c. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Message-id: 20211207132336.36627-2-stefanha@redhat.com [Fixed up aio_set_event_notifier() calls in tests/unit/test-fdmon-epoll.c added after this series was queued. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2021-07-21iothread: add aio-max-batch parameterStefano Garzarella
The `aio-max-batch` parameter will be propagated to AIO engines and it will be used to control the maximum number of queued requests. When there are in queue a number of requests equal to `aio-max-batch`, the engine invokes the system call to forward the requests to the kernel. This parameter allows us to control the maximum batch size to reduce the latency that requests might accumulate while queued in the AIO engine queue. If `aio-max-batch` is equal to 0 (default value), the AIO engine will use its default maximum batch size value. Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Message-id: 20210721094211.69853-3-sgarzare@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2021-07-05util/async: add a human-readable name to BHs for debuggingStefan Hajnoczi
It can be difficult to debug issues with BHs in production environments. Although BHs can usually be identified by looking up their ->cb() function pointer, this requires debug information for the program. It is also not possible to print human-readable diagnostics about BHs because they have no identifier. This patch adds a name to each BH. The name is not unique per instance but differentiates between cb() functions, which is usually enough. It's done by changing aio_bh_new() and friends to macros that stringify cb. The next patch will use the name field when reporting leaked BHs. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210414200247.917496-2-stefanha@redhat.com>
2021-06-18async: the main AioContext is only "current" if under the BQLPaolo Bonzini
If we want to wake up a coroutine from a worker thread, aio_co_wake() currently does not work. In that scenario, aio_co_wake() calls aio_co_enter(), but there is no current AioContext and therefore qemu_get_current_aio_context() returns the main thread. aio_co_wake() then attempts to call aio_context_acquire() instead of going through aio_co_schedule(). The default case of qemu_get_current_aio_context() was added to cover synchronous I/O started from the vCPU thread, but the main and vCPU threads are quite different. The main thread is an I/O thread itself, only running a more complicated event loop; the vCPU thread instead is essentially a worker thread that occasionally calls qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(). It is only in those critical sections that it acts as if it were the home thread of the main AioContext. Therefore, this patch detaches qemu_get_current_aio_context() from iothreads, which is a useless complication. The AioContext pointer is stored directly in the thread-local variable, including for the main loop. Worker threads (including vCPU threads) optionally behave as temporary home threads if they have taken the big QEMU lock, but if that is not the case they will always schedule coroutines on remote threads via aio_co_schedule(). With this change, the stub qemu_mutex_iothread_locked() must be changed from true to false. The previous value of true was needed because the main thread did not have an AioContext in the thread-local variable, but now it does have one. Reported-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210609122234.544153-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Tested-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> [eblake: tweak commit message per Vladimir's review] Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2020-10-09util/async: Add aio_co_reschedule_self()Kevin Wolf
Add a function that can be used to move the currently running coroutine to a different AioContext (and therefore potentially a different thread). Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20201005155855.256490-12-kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-09-23qemu/atomic.h: rename atomic_ to qatomic_Stefan Hajnoczi
clang's C11 atomic_fetch_*() functions only take a C11 atomic type pointer argument. QEMU uses direct types (int, etc) and this causes a compiler error when a QEMU code calls these functions in a source file that also included <stdatomic.h> via a system header file: $ CC=clang CXX=clang++ ./configure ... && make ../util/async.c:79:17: error: address argument to atomic operation must be a pointer to _Atomic type ('unsigned int *' invalid) Avoid using atomic_*() names in QEMU's atomic.h since that namespace is used by <stdatomic.h>. Prefix QEMU's APIs with 'q' so that atomic.h and <stdatomic.h> can co-exist. I checked /usr/include on my machine and searched GitHub for existing "qatomic_" users but there seem to be none. This patch was generated using: $ git grep -h -o '\<atomic\(64\)\?_[a-z0-9_]\+' include/qemu/atomic.h | \ sort -u >/tmp/changed_identifiers $ for identifier in $(</tmp/changed_identifiers); do sed -i "s%\<$identifier\>%q$identifier%g" \ $(git grep -I -l "\<$identifier\>") done I manually fixed line-wrap issues and misaligned rST tables. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200923105646.47864-1-stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-05-18aio-posix: disable fdmon-io_uring when GSource is usedStefan Hajnoczi
The glib event loop does not call fdmon_io_uring_wait() so fd handlers waiting to be submitted build up in the list. There is no benefit is using io_uring when the glib GSource is being used, so disable it instead of implementing a more complex fix. This fixes a memory leak where AioHandlers would build up and increasing amounts of CPU time were spent iterating them in aio_pending(). The symptom is that guests become slow when QEMU is built with io_uring support. Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1877716 Fixes: 73fd282e7b6dd4e4ea1c3bbb3d302c8db51e4ccf ("aio-posix: add io_uring fd monitoring implementation") Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com> Message-id: 20200511183630.279750-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-04-09aio-wait: delegate polling of main AioContext if BQL not heldPaolo Bonzini
Any thread that is not a iothread returns NULL for qemu_get_current_aio_context(). As a result, it would also return true for in_aio_context_home_thread(qemu_get_aio_context()), causing AIO_WAIT_WHILE to invoke aio_poll() directly. This is incorrect if the BQL is not held, because aio_poll() does not expect to run concurrently from multiple threads, and it can actually happen when savevm writes to the vmstate file from the migration thread. Therefore, restrict in_aio_context_home_thread to return true for the main AioContext only if the BQL is held. The function is moved to aio-wait.h because it is mostly used there and to avoid a circular reference between main-loop.h and block/aio.h. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200407140746.8041-5-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-03-09aio-posix: remove idle poll handlers to improve scalabilityStefan Hajnoczi
When there are many poll handlers it's likely that some of them are idle most of the time. Remove handlers that haven't had activity recently so that the polling loop scales better for guests with a large number of devices. This feature only takes effect for the Linux io_uring fd monitoring implementation because it is capable of combining fd monitoring with userspace polling. The other implementations can't do that and risk starving fds in favor of poll handlers, so don't try this optimization when they are in use. IOPS improves from 10k to 105k when the guest has 100 virtio-blk-pci,num-queues=32 devices and 1 virtio-blk-pci,num-queues=1 device for rw=randread,iodepth=1,bs=4k,ioengine=libaio on NVMe. [Clarified aio_poll_handlers locking discipline explanation in comment after discussion with Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-8-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-8-stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-03-09aio-posix: support userspace polling of fd monitoringStefan Hajnoczi
Unlike ppoll(2) and epoll(7), Linux io_uring completions can be polled from userspace. Previously userspace polling was only allowed when all AioHandler's had an ->io_poll() callback. This prevented starvation of fds by userspace pollable handlers. Add the FDMonOps->need_wait() callback that enables userspace polling even when some AioHandlers lack ->io_poll(). For example, it's now possible to do userspace polling when a TCP/IP socket is monitored thanks to Linux io_uring. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-7-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-7-stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-03-09aio-posix: add io_uring fd monitoring implementationStefan Hajnoczi
The recent Linux io_uring API has several advantages over ppoll(2) and epoll(2). Details are given in the source code. Add an io_uring implementation and make it the default on Linux. Performance is the same as with epoll(7) but later patches add optimizations that take advantage of io_uring. It is necessary to change how aio_set_fd_handler() deals with deleting AioHandlers since removing monitored file descriptors is asynchronous in io_uring. fdmon_io_uring_remove() marks the AioHandler deleted and aio_set_fd_handler() will let it handle deletion in that case. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-6-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-6-stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-03-09aio-posix: simplify FDMonOps->update() prototypeStefan Hajnoczi
The AioHandler *node, bool is_new arguments are more complicated to think about than simply being given AioHandler *old_node, AioHandler *new_node. Furthermore, the new Linux io_uring file descriptor monitoring mechanism added by the new patch requires access to both the old and the new nodes. Make this change now in preparation. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-5-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-5-stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-03-09aio-posix: extract ppoll(2) and epoll(7) fd monitoringStefan Hajnoczi
The ppoll(2) and epoll(7) file descriptor monitoring implementations are mixed with the core util/aio-posix.c code. Before adding another implementation for Linux io_uring, extract out the existing ones so there is a clear interface and the core code is simpler. The new interface is AioContext->fdmon_ops, a pointer to a FDMonOps struct. See the patch for details. Semantic changes: 1. ppoll(2) now reflects events from pollfds[] back into AioHandlers while we're still on the clock for adaptive polling. This was already happening for epoll(7), so if it's really an issue then we'll need to fix both in the future. 2. epoll(7)'s fallback to ppoll(2) while external events are disabled was broken when the number of fds exceeded the epoll(7) upgrade threshold. I guess this code path simply wasn't tested and no one noticed the bug. I didn't go out of my way to fix it but the correct code is simpler than preserving the bug. I also took some liberties in removing the unnecessary AioContext->epoll_available (just check AioContext->epollfd != -1 instead) and AioContext->epoll_enabled (it's implicit if our AioContext->fdmon_ops callbacks are being invoked) fields. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305170806.1313245-4-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200305170806.1313245-4-stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-02-22aio-posix: make AioHandler deletion O(1)Stefan Hajnoczi
It is not necessary to scan all AioHandlers for deletion. Keep a list of deleted handlers instead of scanning the full list of all handlers. The AioHandler->deleted field can be dropped. Let's check if the handler has been inserted into the deleted list instead. Add a new QLIST_IS_INSERTED() API for this check. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com> Message-id: 20200214171712.541358-5-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-02-22util/async: make bh_aio_poll() O(1)Stefan Hajnoczi
The ctx->first_bh list contains all created BHs, including those that are not scheduled. The list is iterated by the event loop and therefore has O(n) time complexity with respected to the number of created BHs. Rewrite BHs so that only scheduled or deleted BHs are enqueued. Only BHs that actually require action will be iterated. One semantic change is required: qemu_bh_delete() enqueues the BH and therefore invokes aio_notify(). The tests/test-aio.c:test_source_bh_delete_from_cb() test case assumed that g_main_context_iteration(NULL, false) returns false after qemu_bh_delete() but it now returns true for one iteration. Fix up the test case. This patch makes aio_compute_timeout() and aio_bh_poll() drop from a CPU profile reported by perf-top(1). Previously they combined to 9% CPU utilization when AioContext polling is commented out and the guest has 2 virtio-blk,num-queues=1 and 99 virtio-blk,num-queues=32 devices. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20200221093951.1414693-1-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-01-30block/io_uring: implements interfaces for io_uringAarushi Mehta
Aborts when sqe fails to be set as sqes cannot be returned to the ring. Adds slow path for short reads for older kernels Signed-off-by: Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 20200120141858.587874-5-stefanha@redhat.com Message-Id: <20200120141858.587874-5-stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2019-06-12Include qemu-common.h exactly where neededMarkus Armbruster
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]
2018-10-19qemu-timer: introduce timer attributesArtem Pisarenko
Attributes are simple flags, associated with individual timers for their whole lifetime. They intended to be used to mark individual timers for special handling when they fire. New/init functions family in timer interface updated and refactored (new 'attribute' argument added, timer_list replaced with timer_list_group+type combinations, comments improved to avoid info duplication). Also existing aio interface extended with attribute-enabled variants of functions, which create/initialize timers. Signed-off-by: Artem Pisarenko <artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com> Message-Id: <f47b81dbce734e9806f9516eba8ca588e6321c2f.1539764043.git.artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-06-27linux-aio: properly bubble up errors from initializationNishanth Aravamudan
laio_init() can fail for a couple of reasons, which will lead to a NULL pointer dereference in laio_attach_aio_context(). To solve this, add a aio_setup_linux_aio() function which is called early in raw_open_common. If this fails, propagate the error up. The signature of aio_get_linux_aio() was not modified, because it seems preferable to return the actual errno from the possible failing initialization calls. Additionally, when the AioContext changes, we need to associate a LinuxAioState with the new AioContext. Use the bdrv_attach_aio_context callback and call the new aio_setup_linux_aio(), which will allocate a new AioContext if needed, and return errors on failures. If it fails for any reason, fallback to threaded AIO with an error message, as the device is already in-use by the guest. Add an assert that aio_get_linux_aio() cannot return NULL. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@digitalocean.com> Message-id: 20180622193700.6523-1-naravamudan@digitalocean.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2018-05-18iothread: fix epollfd leak in the process of delIOThreadJie Wang
When we call addIOThread, the epollfd created in aio_context_setup, but not close it in the process of delIOThread, so the epollfd will leak. Reorder the code in aio_epoll_disable and reuse it. Signed-off-by: Jie Wang <wangjie88@huawei.com> Message-Id: <1526517763-11108-1-git-send-email-wangjie88@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> [Mention change to aio_epoll_disable in commit message. - Fam] Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
2018-03-02aio: rename aio_context_in_iothread() to in_aio_context_home_thread()Stefan Hajnoczi
The name aio_context_in_iothread() is misleading because it also returns true when called on the main AioContext from the main loop thread, which is not an IOThread. This patch renames it to in_aio_context_home_thread() and expands the doc comment to make the semantics clearer. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-05-12aio: add missing aio_notify() to aio_enable_external()Stefan Hajnoczi
The main loop uses aio_disable_external()/aio_enable_external() to temporarily disable processing of external AioContext clients like device emulation. This allows monitor commands to quiesce I/O and prevent the guest from submitting new requests while a monitor command is in progress. The aio_enable_external() API is currently broken when an IOThread is in aio_poll() waiting for fd activity when the main loop re-enables external clients. Incrementing ctx->external_disable_cnt does not wake the IOThread from ppoll(2) so fd processing remains suspended and leads to unresponsive emulated devices. This patch adds an aio_notify() call to aio_enable_external() so the IOThread is kicked out of ppoll(2) and will re-arm the file descriptors. The bug can be reproduced as follows: $ qemu -M accel=kvm -m 1024 \ -object iothread,id=iothread0 \ -device virtio-scsi-pci,iothread=iothread0,id=virtio-scsi-pci0 \ -drive if=none,id=drive0,aio=native,cache=none,format=raw,file=test.img \ -device scsi-hd,id=scsi-hd0,drive=drive0 \ -qmp tcp::5555,server,nowait $ scripts/qmp/qmp-shell localhost:5555 (qemu) blockdev-snapshot-sync device=drive0 snapshot-file=sn1.qcow2 mode=absolute-paths format=qcow2 After blockdev-snapshot-sync completes the SCSI disk will be unresponsive. This leads to request timeouts inside the guest. Reported-by: Qianqian Zhu <qizhu@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170508180705.20609-1-stefanha@redhat.com Suggested-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-04-11async: Introduce aio_co_enterFam Zheng
They start the coroutine on the specified context. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-02-21aio-posix: partially inline aio_dispatch into aio_pollPaolo Bonzini
This patch prepares for the removal of unnecessary lockcnt inc/dec pairs. Extract the dispatching loop for file descriptor handlers into a new function aio_dispatch_handlers, and then inline aio_dispatch into aio_poll. aio_dispatch can now become void. 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: 20170213135235.12274-17-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21aio: introduce aio_co_schedule and aio_co_wakePaolo Bonzini
aio_co_wake provides the infrastructure to start a coroutine on a "home" AioContext. It will be used by CoMutex and CoQueue, so that coroutines don't jump from one context to another when they go to sleep on a mutex or waitqueue. However, it can also be used as a more efficient alternative to one-shot bottom halves, and saves the effort of tracking which AioContext a coroutine is running on. aio_co_schedule is the part of aio_co_wake that starts a coroutine on a remove AioContext, but it is also useful to implement e.g. bdrv_set_aio_context callbacks. The implementation of aio_co_schedule is based on a lock-free multiple-producer, single-consumer queue. The multiple producers use cmpxchg to add to a LIFO stack. The consumer (a per-AioContext bottom half) grabs all items added so far, inverts the list to make it FIFO, and goes through it one item at a time until it's empty. The data structure was inspired by OSv, which uses it in the very code we'll "port" to QEMU for the thread-safe CoMutex. Most of the new code is really tests. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-3-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-16aio: document lockingPaolo Bonzini
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170112180800.21085-10-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-16aio: make ctx->list_lock a QemuLockCnt, subsuming ctx->walking_bhPaolo Bonzini
This will make it possible to walk the list of bottom halves without holding the AioContext lock---and in turn to call bottom half handlers without holding the lock. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170112180800.21085-4-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-16aio: rename bh_lock to list_lockPaolo Bonzini
This will be used for AioHandlers too. There is going to be little or no contention, so it is better to reuse the same lock. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170112180800.21085-2-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-03aio: self-tune polling timeStefan Hajnoczi
This patch is based on the algorithm for the kvm.ko halt_poll_ns parameter in Linux. The initial polling time is zero. If the event loop is woken up within the maximum polling time it means polling could be effective, so grow polling time. If the event loop is woken up beyond the maximum polling time it means polling is not effective, so shrink polling time. If the event loop makes progress within the current polling time then the sweet spot has been reached. This algorithm adjusts the polling time so it can adapt to variations in workloads. The goal is to reach the sweet spot while also recognizing when polling would hurt more than help. Two new trace events, poll_grow and poll_shrink, are added for observing polling time adjustment. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20161201192652.9509-13-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-03aio: add .io_poll_begin/end() callbacksStefan Hajnoczi
The begin and end callbacks can be used to prepare for the polling loop and clean up when polling stops. Note that they may only be called once for multiple aio_poll() calls if polling continues to succeed. Once polling fails the end callback is invoked before aio_poll() resumes file descriptor monitoring. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20161201192652.9509-11-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-03aio: add polling mode to AioContextStefan Hajnoczi
The AioContext event loop uses ppoll(2) or epoll_wait(2) to monitor file descriptors or until a timer expires. In cases like virtqueues, Linux AIO, and ThreadPool it is technically possible to wait for events via polling (i.e. continuously checking for events without blocking). Polling can be faster than blocking syscalls because file descriptors, the process scheduler, and system calls are bypassed. The main disadvantage to polling is that it increases CPU utilization. In classic polling configuration a full host CPU thread might run at 100% to respond to events as quickly as possible. This patch implements a timeout so we fall back to blocking syscalls if polling detects no activity. After the timeout no CPU cycles are wasted on polling until the next event loop iteration. The run_poll_handlers_begin() and run_poll_handlers_end() trace events are added to aid performance analysis and troubleshooting. If you need to know whether polling mode is being used, trace these events to find out. Note that the AioContext is now re-acquired before disabling notify_me in the non-polling case. This makes the code cleaner since notify_me was enabled outside the non-polling AioContext release region. This change is correct since it's safe to keep notify_me enabled longer (disabling is an optimization) but potentially causes unnecessary event_notifer_set() calls. I think the chance of performance regression is small here. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20161201192652.9509-4-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-03aio: add AioPollFn and io_poll() interfaceStefan Hajnoczi
The new AioPollFn io_poll() argument to aio_set_fd_handler() and aio_set_event_handler() is used in the next patch. Keep this code change separate due to the number of files it touches. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20161201192652.9509-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-01-03aio: add flag to skip fds to aio_dispatch()Stefan Hajnoczi
Polling mode will not call ppoll(2)/epoll_wait(2). Therefore we know there are no fds ready and should avoid looping over fd handlers in aio_dispatch(). Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20161201192652.9509-2-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2016-12-22block: drop remaining legacy aio functions in commentYaowei Bai
Commit 87f68d318222563822b5c6b28192215fc4b4e441 (block: drop aio functions that operate on the main AioContext) drops qemu_aio_wait function references mostly while leaves these behind, clean up them. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Message-Id: <1480566640-27264-3-git-send-email-baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>