Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio: virtio_scsi: Set can_queue to the length of the virtqueue.

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 10 2017 - 12:46:19 EST


On 10/08/2017 18:40, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Since switching to blk-mq as the default in commit 5c279bd9e406
> ("scsi: default to scsi-mq"), virtio-scsi LUNs consume about 10x as
> much kernel memory.
>
> qemu currently allocates a fixed 128 entry virtqueue. can_queue
> currently is set to 1024. But with indirect descriptors, each command
> in the queue takes 1 virtqueue entry, so the number of commands which
> can be queued is equal to the length of the virtqueue.
>
> Note I intend to send a patch to qemu to allow the virtqueue size to
> be configured from the qemu command line.

You can clear .can_queue from the templates. Otherwise looks good.

Paolo

> Thanks Paolo Bonzini, Christoph Hellwig.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
> index 9be211d68b15..d6b4ff634c0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
> @@ -972,6 +972,8 @@ static int virtscsi_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> if (err)
> goto virtscsi_init_failed;
>
> + shost->can_queue = virtqueue_get_vring_size(vscsi->req_vqs[0].vq);
> +
> cmd_per_lun = virtscsi_config_get(vdev, cmd_per_lun) ?: 1;
> shost->cmd_per_lun = min_t(u32, cmd_per_lun, shost->can_queue);
> shost->max_sectors = virtscsi_config_get(vdev, max_sectors) ?: 0xFFFF;
>