On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:22:46 -0700 (PDT)
Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I observed that there is one msix vector for config and one shared vector
> for all queues in below qemu cmdline, when the num-queues for virtio-blk
> is more than the number of possible cpus:
>
> qemu: "-smp 4" while "-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-0,id=virtblk0,num-queues=6"
>
> # cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
> ... ...
> 24: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI 65536-edge virtio0-config
> 25: 0 0 0 59 PCI-MSI 65537-edge virtio0-virtqueues
> ... ...
>
>
> However, when num-queues is the same as number of possible cpus:
>
> qemu: "-smp 4" while "-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-0,id=virtblk0,num-queues=4"
>
> # cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
> ... ...
> 24: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI 65536-edge virtio0-config
> 25: 2 0 0 0 PCI-MSI 65537-edge virtio0-req.0
> 26: 0 35 0 0 PCI-MSI 65538-edge virtio0-req.1
> 27: 0 0 32 0 PCI-MSI 65539-edge virtio0-req.2
> 28: 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI 65540-edge virtio0-req.3
> ... ...
>
> In above case, there is one msix vector per queue.
Please note that this is pci-specific...
>
>
> This is because the max number of queues is not limited by the number of
> possible cpus.
>
> By default, nvme (regardless about write_queues and poll_queues) and
> xen-blkfront limit the number of queues with num_possible_cpus().
...and these are probably pci-specific as well.
>
>
> Is this by design on purpose, or can we fix with below?
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index 4bc083b..df95ce3 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -513,6 +513,8 @@ static int init_vq(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
> if (err)
> num_vqs = 1;
>
> + num_vqs = min(num_possible_cpus(), num_vqs);
> +
> vblk->vqs = kmalloc_array(num_vqs, sizeof(*vblk->vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!vblk->vqs)
> return -ENOMEM;
virtio-blk, however, is not pci-specific.
If we are using the ccw transport on s390, a completely different
interrupt mechanism is in use ('floating' interrupts, which are not
per-cpu). A check like that should therefore not go into the generic
driver.
