virtiofsd: Use --thread-pool-size=0 to mean no thread pool

Right now we create a thread pool and main thread hands over the request
to thread in thread pool to process. Number of threads in thread pool
can be managed by option --thread-pool-size.

In tests we have noted that many of the workloads are getting better
performance if we don't use a thread pool at all and process all
the requests in the context of a thread receiving the request.

Hence give user an option to be able to run virtiofsd without using
a thread pool.

To implement this, I have used existing option --thread-pool-size. This
option defines how many maximum threads can be in the thread pool.
Thread pool size zero freezes thead pool. I can't see why will one
start virtiofsd with a frozen thread pool (hence frozen file system).
So I am redefining --thread-pool-size=0 to mean, don't use a thread pool.
Instead process the request in the context of thread receiving request
from the queue.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201109143548.GA1479853@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
index b264dcb..ddcefee 100644
--- a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
+++ b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
@@ -578,13 +578,18 @@ static void *fv_queue_thread(void *opaque)
     struct VuDev *dev = &qi->virtio_dev->dev;
     struct VuVirtq *q = vu_get_queue(dev, qi->qidx);
     struct fuse_session *se = qi->virtio_dev->se;
-    GThreadPool *pool;
-
-    pool = g_thread_pool_new(fv_queue_worker, qi, se->thread_pool_size, FALSE,
-                             NULL);
-    if (!pool) {
-        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "%s: g_thread_pool_new failed\n", __func__);
-        return NULL;
+    GThreadPool *pool = NULL;
+    GList *req_list = NULL;
+
+    if (se->thread_pool_size) {
+        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_DEBUG, "%s: Creating thread pool for Queue %d\n",
+                 __func__, qi->qidx);
+        pool = g_thread_pool_new(fv_queue_worker, qi, se->thread_pool_size,
+                                 FALSE, NULL);
+        if (!pool) {
+            fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "%s: g_thread_pool_new failed\n", __func__);
+            return NULL;
+        }
     }
 
     fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_INFO, "%s: Start for queue %d kick_fd %d\n", __func__,
@@ -659,14 +664,27 @@ static void *fv_queue_thread(void *opaque)
 
             req->reply_sent = false;
 
-            g_thread_pool_push(pool, req, NULL);
+            if (!se->thread_pool_size) {
+                req_list = g_list_prepend(req_list, req);
+            } else {
+                g_thread_pool_push(pool, req, NULL);
+            }
         }
 
         pthread_mutex_unlock(&qi->vq_lock);
         pthread_rwlock_unlock(&qi->virtio_dev->vu_dispatch_rwlock);
+
+        /* Process all the requests. */
+        if (!se->thread_pool_size && req_list != NULL) {
+            g_list_foreach(req_list, fv_queue_worker, qi);
+            g_list_free(req_list);
+            req_list = NULL;
+        }
     }
 
-    g_thread_pool_free(pool, FALSE, TRUE);
+    if (pool) {
+        g_thread_pool_free(pool, FALSE, TRUE);
+    }
 
     return NULL;
 }