The default behavior is to infer the logical and physical sector sizes from
the block device backend. However older versions of Windows only work with
specific logical/physical combinations:
- Vista and Windows 7: 512/512
- Windows 7 SP1: 512/512 or 512/4096
For this reason allow the sector size to be specified using the following
block device option: sectorsize=logical[/physical]
Reported by: Leon Dang (ldang@nahannisys.com)
Reviewed by: grehan
MFC after: 2 weeks
GEOM does not support scatter/gather lists in its I/Os. Such requests
are cut in pieces by physio(), that may be problematic, if those pieces
are not multiple of provider's sector size. If such case is detected,
move the data through temporary sequential buffer.
MFC after: 2 weeks
I/O interface.
Asynchronous operation, based on r280026 change, allows to not block virtual
CPU during I/O processing, that on slow/busy storage can take seconds.
Use of recently improved block I/O interface allows to process multiple
requests same time, that improves random I/O performance on wide storages.
Benchmarks of virtual disk, backed by ZVOL on RAID10 pool of 4 HDDs, show
~3.5 times random read performance improvements, while no degradation on
linear I/O. Guest CPU usage during test dropped from 100% to almost zero.
MFC after: 2 weeks
On parallel random I/O this allows better utilize wide storage pools.
To not confuse prefetcher on linear I/O, consecutive requests are executed
sequentially, following the same logic as was earlier implemented in CTL.
Benchmarks of virtual AHCI disk, backed by ZVOL on RAID10 pool of 4 HDDs,
show ~3.5 times random read performance improvements, while no degradation
on linear I/O.
MFC after: 2 weeks
It works only for virtual disks backed by ZVOLs and raw devices supporting
BIO_DELETE. Virtual disks backed by files won't report this capability.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
PxCMD.ST from '1' to '0' and back. This allows the driver a chance to
recover if for instance a timeout occurred due to activity on the
host.
Reviewed by: grehan
Remove the VM name from some of the thread-naming calls
since it is now in the proc title.
Slightly modify the thread-naming for the net and block
threads.
This improves readability when using top/ps with the -a
and -H options on a system with a large number of bhyve VMs.
Requested by: Michael Dexter
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 4 weeks
