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    nvme: improve performance for virtual NVMe devices · f9f38e33
    Helen Koike 提交于
    This change provides a mechanism to reduce the number of MMIO doorbell
    writes for the NVMe driver. When running in a virtualized environment
    like QEMU, the cost of an MMIO is quite hefy here. The main idea for
    the patch is provide the device two memory location locations:
     1) to store the doorbell values so they can be lookup without the doorbell
        MMIO write
     2) to store an event index.
    I believe the doorbell value is obvious, the event index not so much.
    Similar to the virtio specification, the virtual device can tell the
    driver (guest OS) not to write MMIO unless you are writing past this
    value.
    
    FYI: doorbell values are written by the nvme driver (guest OS) and the
    event index is written by the virtual device (host OS).
    
    The patch implements a new admin command that will communicate where
    these two memory locations reside. If the command fails, the nvme
    driver will work as before without any optimizations.
    
    Contributions:
      Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
      Frank Swiderski <fes@google.com>
      Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
      Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
    
    Just to give an idea on the performance boost with the vendor
    extension: Running fio [1], a stock NVMe driver I get about 200K read
    IOPs with my vendor patch I get about 1000K read IOPs. This was
    running with a null device i.e. the backing device simply returned
    success on every read IO request.
    
    [1] Running on a 4 core machine:
      fio --time_based --name=benchmark --runtime=30
      --filename=/dev/nvme0n1 --nrfiles=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32
      --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 --verify_fatal=0 --numjobs=4
      --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --randrepeat=false
    Signed-off-by: NRob Nelson <rlnelson@google.com>
    [mlin: port for upstream]
    Signed-off-by: NMing Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
    [koike: updated for upstream]
    Signed-off-by: NHelen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.co.uk>
    Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: NKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
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