[PATCH 1/2] virtio-scsi: replace target spinlock with seqcount

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Sun Jul 06 2014 - 10:39:56 EST


From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The spinlock of tgt_lock is only for serializing read and write
req_vq, one lockless seqcount is enough for the purpose.

On one 16core VM with vhost-scsi backend, the patch can improve
IOPS with 3% on random read test.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[Add initialization in virtscsi_target_alloc. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
index 308256b5e4cb..f67a872de14b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_device.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
+#include <linux/seqlock.h>

#define VIRTIO_SCSI_MEMPOOL_SZ 64
#define VIRTIO_SCSI_EVENT_LEN 8
@@ -75,18 +76,16 @@ struct virtio_scsi_vq {
* queue, and also lets the driver optimize the IRQ affinity for the virtqueues
* (each virtqueue's affinity is set to the CPU that "owns" the queue).
*
- * tgt_lock is held to serialize reading and writing req_vq. Reading req_vq
- * could be done locklessly, but we do not do it yet.
+ * tgt_seq is held to serialize reading and writing req_vq.
*
* Decrements of reqs are never concurrent with writes of req_vq: before the
* decrement reqs will be != 0; after the decrement the virtqueue completion
* routine will not use the req_vq so it can be changed by a new request.
- * Thus they can happen outside the tgt_lock, provided of course we make reqs
+ * Thus they can happen outside the tgt_seq, provided of course we make reqs
* an atomic_t.
*/
struct virtio_scsi_target_state {
- /* This spinlock never held at the same time as vq_lock. */
- spinlock_t tgt_lock;
+ seqcount_t tgt_seq;

/* Count of outstanding requests. */
atomic_t reqs;
@@ -559,19 +558,33 @@ static struct virtio_scsi_vq *virtscsi_pick_vq(struct virtio_scsi *vscsi,
unsigned long flags;
u32 queue_num;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&tgt->reqs) > 1) {
+ unsigned long seq;
+
+ do {
+ seq = read_seqcount_begin(&tgt->tgt_seq);
+ vq = tgt->req_vq;
+ } while (read_seqcount_retry(&tgt->tgt_seq, seq));
+ } else {
+ /* no writes can be concurrent because of atomic_t */
+ write_seqcount_begin(&tgt->tgt_seq);
+
+ /* keep previous req_vq if a reader just arrived */
+ if (unlikely(atomic_read(&tgt->reqs) > 1)) {
+ vq = tgt->req_vq;
+ goto unlock;
+ }

- if (atomic_inc_return(&tgt->reqs) > 1)
- vq = tgt->req_vq;
- else {
queue_num = smp_processor_id();
while (unlikely(queue_num >= vscsi->num_queues))
queue_num -= vscsi->num_queues;
-
tgt->req_vq = vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[queue_num];
+ unlock:
+ write_seqcount_end(&tgt->tgt_seq);
}
+ local_irq_restore(flags);

- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
return vq;
}

@@ -667,14 +680,17 @@ static int virtscsi_abort(struct scsi_cmnd *sc)

static int virtscsi_target_alloc(struct scsi_target *starget)
{
+ struct Scsi_Host *sh = dev_to_shost(starget->dev.parent);
+ struct virtio_scsi *vscsi = shost_priv(sh);
+
struct virtio_scsi_target_state *tgt =
kmalloc(sizeof(*tgt), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tgt)
return -ENOMEM;

- spin_lock_init(&tgt->tgt_lock);
+ seqcount_init(&tgt->tgt_seq);
atomic_set(&tgt->reqs, 0);
- tgt->req_vq = NULL;
+ tgt->req_vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[0];

starget->hostdata = tgt;
return 0;
--
1.8.3.1


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