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[libvirt] RFE: Per-virtqueue IOThread assignment for virtio-blk

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      .Improved I/O performance for `virtio-blk` disk devices

      With this update, you can configure a separate IOThread for each virtqueue in a `virtio-blk` disk device. This configuration improves performance for virtual machines with multiple CPUs during intensive I/O workloads.
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      .Improved I/O performance for `virtio-blk` disk devices With this update, you can configure a separate IOThread for each virtqueue in a `virtio-blk` disk device. This configuration improves performance for virtual machines with multiple CPUs during intensive I/O workloads.
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      Work is underway to add per-virtqueue IOThread mapping to QEMU's virtio-blk and virtio-scsi devices.

      Currently each device instance can be associated with just one IOThread where all virtqueues are processed. This is known to be a bottleneck and prevents true multi-queue operation because all I/O requests are funneled through a single IOThread on the host.

      The new multi-queue support in QEMU will allow individual virtqueues to be mapped to an IOThread. It is likely that most users will wish to spread virtqueues round-robin across a set of IOThreads.

      New domain XML syntax is necessary to expose this feature once it becomes available in QEMU.

      I am filing this BZ now so there is time to discuss the feature and so that libvirt support can be developed in parallel to QEMU.

              pkrempa@redhat.com Peter Krempa
              stefanha@redhat.com stefanha@redhat.com (Inactive)
              Dan Zheng
              Peter Krempa Peter Krempa
              Fangge Jin Fangge Jin
              Daniel Vozenilek Daniel Vozenilek
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