qemu/include
Kevin Wolf ee416407b3 aio-posix: Separate AioPolledEvent per AioHandler
Adaptive polling has a big problem: It doesn't consider that an event
loop can wait for many different events that may have very different
typical latencies.

For example, think of a guest that tends to send a new I/O request soon
after the previous I/O request completes, but the storage on the host is
rather slow. In this case, getting the new request from guest quickly
means that polling is enabled, but the next thing is performing the I/O
request on the backend, which is slow and disables polling again for the
next guest request. This means that in such a scenario, polling could
help for every other event, but is only ever enabled when it can't
succeed.

In order to fix this, keep a separate AioPolledEvent for each
AioHandler. We will then know that the backend file descriptor always
has a high latency and isn't worth polling for, but we also know that
the guest is always fast and we should poll for it. This solves at least
half of the problem, we can now keep polling for those cases where it
makes sense and get the improved performance from it.

Since the event loop doesn't know which event will be next, we still do
some unnecessary polling while we're waiting for the slow disk. I made
some attempts to be more clever than just randomly growing and shrinking
the polling time, and even to let callers be explicit about when they
expect a new event, but so far this hasn't resulted in improved
performance or even caused performance regressions. For now, let's just
fix the part that is easy enough to fix, we can revisit the rest later.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250307221634.71951-6-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2025-03-13 17:57:23 +01:00
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accel cpus: Introduce SysemuCPUOps::has_work() handler 2025-03-09 17:00:47 +01:00
authz Prefer 'on' | 'off' over 'yes' | 'no' for bool options 2021-01-29 17:07:53 +00:00
block aio-posix: Separate AioPolledEvent per AioHandler 2025-03-13 17:57:23 +01:00
chardev chardev/char-hub: implement backend chardev aggregator 2025-02-03 13:57:08 +04:00
crypto crypto: Remove qcrypto_tls_session_get_handshake_status 2025-02-14 15:19:03 -03:00
disas disas: Fix build against Capstone v6 (again) 2024-11-05 10:09:59 +00:00
exec migration: ram block cpr blockers 2025-03-10 12:09:24 -03:00
fpu fpu: Move m68k_denormal fmt flag into floatx80_behaviour 2025-02-25 15:32:57 +00:00
gdbstub gdbstub/helpers: Introduce ldtul_$endian_p() helpers 2024-10-15 11:55:09 -03:00
hw xen/passthrough: use gsi to map pirq when dom0 is PVH 2025-03-10 13:25:14 +01:00
io io: Add a read flag for relaxed EOF 2025-02-14 15:19:04 -03:00
libdecnumber Replace config-time define HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN 2022-04-06 10:50:37 +02:00
migration migration: Add save_live_complete_precopy_thread handler 2025-03-06 06:47:33 +01:00
monitor monitor: Remove obsolete stubs 2024-06-30 19:51:44 +03:00
net net: checksum: Convert data to void * 2024-11-25 13:59:50 +08:00
qapi error: define g_autoptr() cleanup function for the Error type 2025-03-06 06:47:33 +01:00
qemu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- 2025-03-11 09:26:40 +08:00
qobject qapi: Move include/qapi/qmp/ to include/qobject/ 2025-02-10 15:33:16 +01:00
qom qom: remove unused field 2025-01-10 23:34:44 +01:00
scsi hw/ufs: Support for UFS logical unit 2023-09-07 14:01:29 -04:00
semihosting semihosting/console: Avoid including 'cpu.h' 2025-01-17 10:44:00 +00:00
standard-headers linux-headers: Update to Linux v6.14-rc3 2025-03-04 15:42:54 +10:00
system block: Remove unused blk_op_is_blocked() 2025-03-11 15:49:14 +01:00
tcg tcg: Introduce the 'z' constraint for a hardware zero register 2025-02-18 08:29:03 -08:00
ui ui/input-legacy.c: remove unused legacy qemu_add_kbd_event_handler() function 2024-11-08 11:06:42 +01:00
user user: Extract common MMAP API to 'user/mmap.h' 2025-03-09 14:54:32 +01:00
elf.h util: spelling fixes 2023-08-31 19:47:43 +02:00
glib-compat.h Bump minimum glib version to v2.66 2024-05-14 12:46:24 +02:00
qemu-io.h Include qemu-common.h exactly where needed 2019-06-12 13:20:20 +02:00
qemu-main.h ui & main loop: Redesign of system-specific main thread event handling 2024-12-31 21:21:34 +01:00