Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] block: virtio-blk: support multi virt queues per virtio-blk device

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Il 17/06/2014 17:50, Ming Lei ha scritto:
>
>>> > It would be nice to allocate virtqueues dynamically instead of
>>> > hardcoding the limit.  virtio-scsi also allocates virtqueues
>>> > dynamically.
>>
>> virtio-scsi may have lots of LUN, but virtio-blk only has one disk
>> which needn't lots of hardware queues.
>
>
> If you want to do queue steering based on the guest VCPU number, the number
> of queues must be = to the number of VCPUs shouldn't it?
>
> I tried using a divisor of the number of VCPUs, but couldn't get the block
> layer to deliver interrupts to the right VCPU.

For blk-mq's hardware queue, that won't be necessary to equal to
VCPUs number, and irq affinity per hw queue can be simply set as
blk_mq_hw_ctx->cpumask.

Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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