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* [http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/ Virtio specification]
* [http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/ Virtio specification]
* [http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm SCSI Standards] - especially SAM, SPC, SBC
* [http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm SCSI Standards] - especially SAM, SPC, SBC
* [http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/conventional PCI Local Bus 3.0] - useful for understanding virtio-pci


= Links =
= Links =


* KVM Forum 2011 presentation [http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/f/f5/2011-forum-virtio-scsi.pdf Virtio SCSI: An alternative virtualized storage stack for KVM]
* KVM Forum 2011 presentation [http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/f/f5/2011-forum-virtio-scsi.pdf Virtio SCSI: An alternative virtualized storage stack for KVM]

Revision as of 09:18, 17 February 2012

Overview

A virtio storage interface for efficient I/O that overcomes virtio-blk limitations and supports advanced SCSI hardware.

Features

  • /dev/sda inside guest
  • Multiple LUNs per PCI adapter, solves virtio-blk 1:1 scalability problem
  • SCSI passthrough (tape, CD burning, ...)

Status

Future tasks

  • Pick up vhost-scsi work again:
    • Port QEMU hw/virtio-scsi.c vhost-scsi support onto latest code
    • add QEMU Object Model (QOM) support to the vhost-scsi device
    • Port LIO vhost-scsi code onto latest lio.git code
    • Update vhost-scsi to implement latest virtio-scsi device specification
    • Ensure vhost-scsi I/O still works
    • Design libvirt integration for LIO
  • QEMU SCSI target:
    • Add support for WRITE SAME commands
    • Add support for rerror/werror to scsi-generic
  • Complete virtio-scsi spec implementation:
    • Add support for hotplug events
    • Add support for asynchronous media change notifications
    • Multi-queue (with fine-grained locking in the Linux driver?)
  • Use cases to test:
    • CD-ROM/DVD burning passthrough
    • Tape passthrough
    • 100s of LUNs (scalability)
  • Use cases to flesh out:
    • LUN hotplug (known to work with manual hotplug)
    • Multipath inside guest
  • Performance analysis
    • Compare against virtio-blk I/O (rough numbers: 6% slower on iozone with a tmpfs-backed disk)
    • Compare passthrough performance against bare metal host SCSI
    • Measure scalability and where the bottlenecks are (full virtqueues? locks?)

Specifications

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