Revision as of 12:33, 14 February 2012

Overview

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

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?)

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 ** 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?)
 = 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]