The nvme-io_uring driver expects a character special file such as
/dev/ng0n1. Follow the convention of having a "filename" option when a
regular file is expected, and a "path" option otherwise.
This makes io_uring the only libblkio-based driver with a "filename"
option, as it accepts a regular file (even though it can also take a
block special file).
Signed-off-by: Alberto Faria <afaria@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221028233854.839933-1-afaria@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Some libblkio drivers may be able to work with regular files (e.g.,
io_uring) or otherwise resizable devices. Conservatively set
BlockDriver::has_variable_length to true to ensure bdrv_nb_sectors()
always gives up-to-date results.
Also implement BlockDriver::bdrv_co_truncate for the case where no
preallocation is needed and the device already has a size compatible
with what was requested.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Faria <afaria@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221029122031.975273-1-afaria@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Avoid bounce buffers when QEMUIOVector elements are within previously
registered bdrv_register_buf() buffers.
The idea is that emulated storage controllers will register guest RAM
using bdrv_register_buf() and set the BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF on I/O
requests. Therefore no blkio_map_mem_region() calls are necessary in the
performance-critical I/O code path.
This optimization doesn't apply if the I/O buffer is internally
allocated by QEMU (e.g. qcow2 metadata). There we still take the slow
path because BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF is not set.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221013185908.1297568-13-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
libblkio (https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio/) is a library for
high-performance disk I/O. It currently supports io_uring,
virtio-blk-vhost-user, and virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa with additional drivers
under development.
One of the reasons for developing libblkio is that other applications
besides QEMU can use it. This will be particularly useful for
virtio-blk-vhost-user which applications may wish to use for connecting
to qemu-storage-daemon.
libblkio also gives us an opportunity to develop in Rust behind a C API
that is easy to consume from QEMU.
This commit adds io_uring, nvme-io_uring, virtio-blk-vhost-user, and
virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa BlockDrivers to QEMU using libblkio. It will be
easy to add other libblkio drivers since they will share the majority of
code.
For now I/O buffers are copied through bounce buffers if the libblkio
driver requires it. Later commits add an optimization for
pre-registering guest RAM to avoid bounce buffers.
The syntax is:
--blockdev io_uring,node-name=drive0,filename=test.img,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on|off
--blockdev nvme-io_uring,node-name=drive0,filename=/dev/ng0n1,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on
--blockdev virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa,node-name=drive0,path=/dev/vdpa...,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on
--blockdev virtio-blk-vhost-user,node-name=drive0,path=vhost-user-blk.sock,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221013185908.1297568-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Alberto Faria