[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] The intro for QEMU disk I/O limits

[Zhi Yong Wu]

The main goal of the patch is to effectively cap the disk I/O speed or counts 
of one single VM.It is only one draft, so it unavoidably has some drawbacks, if 
you catch them, please let me know.

The patch will mainly introduce one block I/O throttling algorithm, one timer 
and one block queue for each I/O limits enabled drive.

When a block request is coming in, the throttling algorithm will check if its 
I/O rate or counts exceed the limits; if yes, then it will enqueue to the block 
queue; The timer will periodically handle the I/O requests in it.

Some available features follow as below:
(1) global bps limit.
    -drive bps=xxx            in bytes/s
(2) only read bps limit
    -drive bps_rd=xxx         in bytes/s
(3) only write bps limit
    -drive bps_wr=xxx         in bytes/s
(4) global iops limit
    -drive iops=xxx           in ios/s
(5) only read iops limit
    -drive iops_rd=xxx        in ios/s
(6) only write iops limit
    -drive iops_wr=xxx        in ios/s
(7) the combination of some limits.
    -drive bps=xxx,iops=xxx

Known Limitations:
(1) #1 can not coexist with #2, #3
(2) #4 can not coexist with #5, #6
(3) When bps/iops limits are specified to a small value such as 511 bytes/s, 
this VM will hang up. We are considering how to handle this senario.

Zhi Yong Wu (2):
  v3: Added the code for extending slice time, and modified the method to 
compute wait time for the timer.
  The command line support for QEMU disk I/O limits
  The implement of block queue, block timer, and I/O throttling
    algorithm
  v2: The codes V2 for QEMU disk I/O limits.
      Modified the codes mainly based on stefan's comments.

  v1: Submit the codes for QEMU disk I/O limits.
      Only a code draft.

 Makefile.objs   |    2 +-
 block.c         |  302 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 block.h         |    1 -
 block_int.h     |   29 ++++++
 blockdev.c      |   22 ++++
 qemu-config.c   |   24 +++++
 qemu-option.c   |   17 +++
 qemu-option.h   |    1 +
 qemu-options.hx |    1 +
 9 files changed, 389 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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