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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: 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: 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>