This is a quick hack to experiment with parallel threading model in the python plugin. Changes: - Use aligned buffers to make it possible to use O_DIRECT. Using parallel I/O does not buy us much when using buffered I/O. pwrite() copies data to the page cache, and pread() reads data from the page cache. - Disable extents in the file plugin. This way we can compare it with the python file example. - Implement flush in the file example. With these changes, I could compare the file plugin with the new python file example, and it seems that the parallel threading models works nicely, and we get similar performance for the case of fully allocated image. I created a test image using: $ virt-builder fedora-32 -o /var/tmp/fedora-32.raw --root-password=password:root And a fully allocated test image using: $ fallocate --length 6g /var/tmp/disk.raw $ dd if=/var/tmp/fedora-32.raw bs=8M of=/var/tmp/disk.raw iflag=direct oflag=direct conv=fsync,notrunc $ qemu-img map --output json /var/tmp/disk.raw [{ "start": 0, "length": 6442450944, "depth": 0, "zero": false, "data": true, "offset": 0}] For reference, copying this image with dd using direct I/O: $ dd if=/var/tmp/disk.raw bs=2M of=/dev/shm/disk.raw iflag=direct conv=fsync status=progress 6442450944 bytes (6.4 GB, 6.0 GiB) copied, 10.4783 s, 615 MB/s Copying same image with qemu-img convert, disabling zero detection, using different number of coroutines: $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -T none -S0 -m1 -W /var/tmp/disk.raw /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m11.527s user 0m0.102s sys 0m2.330s $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -T none -S0 -m2 -W /var/tmp/disk.raw /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m5.971s user 0m0.080s sys 0m2.749s $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -T none -S0 -m4 -W /var/tmp/disk.raw /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m3.674s user 0m0.071s sys 0m3.140s $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -T none -S0 -m8 -W /var/tmp/disk.raw /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m3.408s user 0m0.069s sys 0m3.813s $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -T none -S0 -m16 -W /var/tmp/disk.raw /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m3.305s user 0m0.054s sys 0m3.767s Same with the modified file plugin, using direct I/O and without extents: $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t1 -f -r file file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m12.167s user 0m5.798s sys 0m2.477s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t2 -f -r file file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m7.981s user 0m5.204s sys 0m2.740s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t4 -f -r file file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m6.568s user 0m4.996s sys 0m3.167s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t8 -f -r file file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m6.493s user 0m4.950s sys 0m3.492s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t16 -f -r file file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m6.138s user 0m4.621s sys 0m3.550s Finally, same with the python file example: $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t1 -f -r python ./plugins/python/examples/file.py file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m12.398s user 0m6.652s sys 0m2.484s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t2 -f -r python ./plugins/python/examples/file.py file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m8.169s user 0m5.418s sys 0m2.736s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t4 -f -r python ./plugins/python/examples/file.py file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m6.419s user 0m4.891s sys 0m3.103s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t8 -f -r python ./plugins/python/examples/file.py file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m6.610s user 0m5.115s sys 0m3.377s $ rm -f /tmp/nbd.sock && ./nbdkit -U /tmp/nbd.sock -t16 -f -r python ./plugins/python/examples/file.py file=/var/tmp/disk.raw $ time qemu-img convert -p -f raw -O raw -S0 -m16 -W nbd:unix:/tmp/nbd.sock /dev/shm/disk.raw real 0m6.093s user 0m4.520s sys 0m3.567s I think this show that the parallel threading model works for the python plugin as good as for the file plugin. --- plugins/file/file.c | 4 ++-- plugins/python/examples/file.py | 5 ++++- server/plugins.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ server/threadlocal.c | 7 +++++-- 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/plugins/file/file.c b/plugins/file/file.c index dc99f992..27316b9f 100644 --- a/plugins/file/file.c +++ b/plugins/file/file.c @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ file_open (int readonly) return NULL; } - flags = O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY; + flags = O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY|O_DIRECT; if (readonly) flags |= O_RDONLY; else @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ file_can_extents (void *handle) nbdkit_debug ("extents disabled: lseek: SEEK_HOLE: %m"); return 0; } - return 1; + return 0; } static int diff --git a/plugins/python/examples/file.py b/plugins/python/examples/file.py index 866b8244..3652eb52 100644 --- a/plugins/python/examples/file.py +++ b/plugins/python/examples/file.py @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def open(readonly): flags = os.O_RDONLY else: flags = os.O_RDWR - fd = os.open(filename, flags) + fd = os.open(filename, flags | os.O_DIRECT) return { 'fd': fd } def get_size(h): @@ -65,3 +65,6 @@ def pwrite(h, buf, offset, flags): n = os.pwritev(h['fd'], [buf], offset) if n != len(buf): raise RuntimeError("short write") + +def flush(h, flags): + os.fsync(h['fd']) diff --git a/server/plugins.c b/server/plugins.c index d4364cd2..ce4700a3 100644 --- a/server/plugins.c +++ b/server/plugins.c @@ -631,6 +631,8 @@ plugin_zero (struct backend *b, void *handle, bool fast_zero = flags & NBDKIT_FLAG_FAST_ZERO; bool emulate = false; bool need_flush = false; + void *zero_buffer = NULL; + int buffer_size = MIN (MAX_REQUEST_SIZE, count); if (fua && backend_can_fua (b) != NBDKIT_FUA_NATIVE) { flags &= ~NBDKIT_FLAG_FUA; @@ -669,19 +671,25 @@ plugin_zero (struct backend *b, void *handle, threadlocal_set_error (0); *err = 0; + *err = posix_memalign(&zero_buffer, 4096, buffer_size); + if (*err != 0) { + r = -1; + goto done; + } + + memset(zero_buffer, 0, buffer_size); + while (count) { - /* Always contains zeroes, but we can't use const or else gcc 9 - * will use .rodata instead of .bss and inflate the binary size. - */ - static /* const */ char buf[MAX_REQUEST_SIZE]; - uint32_t limit = MIN (count, sizeof buf); + uint32_t limit = MIN (count, buffer_size); - r = plugin_pwrite (b, handle, buf, limit, offset, flags, err); + r = plugin_pwrite (b, handle, zero_buffer, limit, offset, flags, err); if (r == -1) break; count -= limit; } + free(zero_buffer); + done: if (r != -1 && need_flush) r = plugin_flush (b, handle, 0, err); diff --git a/server/threadlocal.c b/server/threadlocal.c index 90230028..04c82842 100644 --- a/server/threadlocal.c +++ b/server/threadlocal.c @@ -195,13 +195,16 @@ threadlocal_buffer (size_t size) if (threadlocal->buffer_size < size) { void *ptr; + int err; - ptr = realloc (threadlocal->buffer, size); - if (ptr == NULL) { + err = posix_memalign (&ptr, 4096, size); + if (err != 0) { nbdkit_error ("threadlocal_buffer: realloc: %m"); return NULL; } + memset (ptr, 0, size); + free(threadlocal->buffer); threadlocal->buffer = ptr; threadlocal->buffer_size = size; } -- 2.25.4