This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.21
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qemu (1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.21) bionic; urgency=medium
* d/p/lp-1842774-s390x-cpumodel-Add-the-z15-name-to-the-description-o.patch:
update the z15 model name (LP: #1842774)
* d/p/u/lp-1847948-*: allow MSIX BAR mapping on VFIO in general and use that
instead of emulation on ppc64 increasing performance of e.g. NVME
passthrough (LP: #1847948)
-- Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Oct
2019 11:23:23 +0200
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
Improve NVMe guest performance on Bionic QEMU
Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
Fix Committed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
Won't Fix
Status in qemu source package in Bionic:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
* In the past qemu has generally not allowd MSI-X BAR mapping on VFIO.
But there can be platforms (like ppc64 spapr) that can and want to do
exactly that.
* Backport two patches from upstream (in since qemu 2.12 / Disco).
* Due to that there is a tremendous speedup, especially useful with page
size bigger than 4k. This avoids that being split into chunks and makes
direct MMIO access possible for the guest.
[Test Case]
* On ppc64 pass through an NVME device to the guest and run I/O
benchmarks, see below for Details how to set that up.
Note: this needs the HWE kernel or another kernel fixup for [1].
Note: the test should also be done with the non-HWE kernel, the
expectation there is that it would not show the perf benefits, but
still work fine
[Regression Potential]
* Changes:
a) if the host driver allows mapping of MSI-X data the entire BAR is
mapped. This is only done if the kernel reports that capability [1].
This ensures that only on kernels able to do so qemu does expose the
new behavior (safe against regression in that regard)
b) on ppc64 MSI-X emulation is disabled for VFIO devices this is local
to just this HW and will not affect other HW.
Generally the regressions that come to mind are slight changes in
behavior (real HW vs the former emulation) that on some weird/old
guests could cause trouble. But then it is limited to only PPC where
only a small set of certified HW is really allowed.
The mapping that might be added even on other platforms should not
consume too much extra memory as long as it isn't used. Further since
it depends on the kernel capability it isn't randomly issues on kernels
where we expect it to fail.
So while it is quite a change, it seems safe to me.
[Other Info]
* I know, one could as well call that a "feature", but it really is a
performance bug fix more than anything else. Also the SRU policy allows
exploitation/toleration of new HW especially for LTS releases.
Therefore I think this is fine as SRU.
[1]:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a32295c612c57990d17fb0f41e7134394b2f35f6
== Comment: #0 - Murilo Opsfelder Araujo - 2019-10-11 14:16:14 ==
---Problem Description---
Back-port the following patches to Bionic QEMU to improve NVMe guest
performance by more than 200%:
?vfio-pci: Allow mmap of MSIX BAR?
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ae0215b2bb56a9d5321a185dde133bfdd306a4c0
?ppc/spapr, vfio: Turn off MSIX emulation for VFIO devices?
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fcad0d2121976df4b422b4007a5eb7fcaac01134
---uname output---
na
---Additional Hardware Info---
0030:01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe
SSD Controller 172Xa/172Xb (rev 01)
Machine Type = AC922
---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured
---Steps to Reproduce---
Install or setup a guest image and boot it.
Once guest is running, passthrough the NVMe disk to the guest using
the XML:
host$ cat nvme-disk.xml
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='no'>
<driver name='vfio'/>
<source>
<address domain='0x0030' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
host$ virsh attach-device <domain> nvme-disk.xml --live
On the guest, run fio benchmarks:
guest$ fio --direct=1 --rw=randrw --refill_buffers --norandommap
--randrepeat=0 --ioengine=libaio --bs=4k --rwmixread=100 --iodepth=16
--runtime=60 --name=job1 --filename=/dev/nvme0n1 --numjobs=4
Results are similar with numjobs=4 and numjobs=64, respectively:
READ: bw=385MiB/s (404MB/s), 78.0MiB/s-115MiB/s (81.8MB/s-120MB/s),
io=11.3GiB (12.1GB), run=30001-30001msec
READ: bw=382MiB/s (400MB/s), 2684KiB/s-12.6MiB/s (2749kB/s-13.2MB/s),
io=11.2GiB (12.0GB), run=30001-30009msec
With the two patches applied, performance improved significantly for
numjobs=4 and numjobs=64 cases, respectively:
READ: bw=1191MiB/s (1249MB/s), 285MiB/s-309MiB/s (299MB/s-324MB/s),
io=34.9GiB (37.5GB), run=30001-30001msec
READ: bw=4273MiB/s (4481MB/s), 49.7MiB/s-113MiB/s (52.1MB/s-119MB/s),
io=125GiB (134GB), run=30001-30005msec
Userspace tool common name: qemu
Userspace rpm: qemu
The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64-bit
Userspace tool obtained from project website: na
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