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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Add full scatter-gather support for SCSI generi
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Alex Pyrgiotis |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Add full scatter-gather support for SCSI generic devices |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:55:08 +0200 |
Hi all,
This patch is an attempt to boost the performance of "scsi-generic" and
"scsi-block" device types, by removing an extra data copy and reducing
their memory footprint. More specifically, the problem lies in the
functions in the `scsi-generic_req_ops` struct of scsi-generic.c. These
functions rely on an intermediate buffer to do the SG_IO ioctl request,
without checking if the SCSI controller has provided a scatter-gather
list with the request.
In a nutshell, our proposal is to map the provided scatter-gather list
(if any) to the address space of the QEMU process and use the resulting
iovec as the buffer for the ioctl request. You'll find that the logic is
quite similar to the one used in scsi-disk.c.
Cheers,
Alex
Alex Pyrgiotis (9):
dma-helpers: Expose the sg mapping logic
dma-helpers: Add support for ioctl operations
dma-helpers: Do not truncate small qiovs
scsi-generic: Add common functions
scsi-generic: Separate `sg_io_hdr' initializations
scsi-generic: Make request execution buf-specific
scsi-generic: Make data-copying logic clearer
scsi-generic: Factor out response interception
scsi-generic: Allow full scatter-gather support
dma-helpers.c | 184 ++++++++++++++++++---
hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c | 422 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
include/sysemu/dma.h | 8 +
trace-events | 4 +-
4 files changed, 488 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Add full scatter-gather support for SCSI generic devices,
Alex Pyrgiotis <=
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/9] scsi-generic: Separate `sg_io_hdr' initializations, Alex Pyrgiotis, 2015/12/16
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/9] scsi-generic: Add common functions, Alex Pyrgiotis, 2015/12/16
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/9] dma-helpers: Do not truncate small qiovs, Alex Pyrgiotis, 2015/12/16
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/9] scsi-generic: Make data-copying logic clearer, Alex Pyrgiotis, 2015/12/16