Remove the size field as it is not used. If we would keep it
we would have to calculate it in scsi_task_set_iov_in/out which
would add unneccassry wals to the iovec array.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Change iscsi_scsi_command_async() to write data-out using iovectors
attached to the scsi task structure instead of copying the data into
the buffer holding the header.
Still allow passing the data via an argument to the funtcion so that the
ABI does not change but then just conver the data to an iovector.
Update the write_to_socket functions to know about the iovectors and write them
as part of the pdu.
Convert write10_task to use iovectors.
This will allow 'zero-copy' writes through libiscsi.
However, as 'zero-copy writes does mean that we do more send() calls into
the kernel this may degrade performance for very small i/o.
A scsi write will not take at least 2 send() calls.
One send call for the iscsi header structure and a second send call for the
payload data.
This will be more expensive than the old memcpy() of payload data plus one send() call since the send() will be a lot more expensive than memcpy() of a small amount of data.
This patch defines an scsi_iovec struct which is guaranteed
to be POSIX compatible. It furthermore adds support for
in+out iovectors for bi-directional operations
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
If an application passes buffers to libiscsi for reading they are
currently added to a linked list one by one. This leads to a malloc
for each buffer object plus O(n) walks trough the list to add
the buffer to then end of the list. Additionally the buffer read
routine takes up to O(n) iterations to find the right buffer
for a request.
This patch introduces an scsi_iovector struct to pass buffers to
an scsi task. Adding a new buffer is in O(1) and finding the
right buffer to also. Malloc requirements are in O(log(n)).
Additionally the scsi_iovector struct is itended to be binary
compatible to an QEMUIOVector allowing to pass this structure
directly to the library.
Initial tests have been made booting an Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
Desktop server up to the login prompt. The following observations
have been made with regards to scsi_malloc calls:
original implementation: ~11.500 mallocs
using iovector instead of list: ~ 7.500 mallocs
passing the iovector directly: 0 mallocs
To enable this feature in qemu for testing the following patch might
be used:
diff --git a/block/iscsi.c b/block/iscsi.c
index a6a819d..2809c15 100644
--- a/block/iscsi.c
+++ b/block/iscsi.c
@@ -390,11 +390,16 @@ iscsi_aio_readv(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
return NULL;
}
+#if defined(LIBISCSI_FEATURE_IOVECTOR)
+ assert(sizeof(struct QEMUIOVector) == sizeof(struct scsi_iovector));
+ scsi_iovector_assign(acb->task, (struct scsi_iovector*) acb->qiov);
+#else
for (i = 0; i < acb->qiov->niov; i++) {
scsi_task_add_data_in_buffer(acb->task,
acb->qiov->iov[i].iov_len,
acb->qiov->iov[i].iov_base);
}
+#endif
iscsi_set_events(iscsilun);
---
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Split the INQUIRY data-in unmarshalling into smaller chunks, fixing some
potential memory leaks along the way.
Signed-off-by: Arne Redlich <arne.redlich@googlemail.com>
The memory tracking code reports memory allocated by iscsi_allocate_pdu_with_itt_flags_size() as lost.
This memory is allocated by the iscsi part of libiscsi, but later freed by the lowlevel scsi part. We
will fix this later by introducing an iscsi_task object.
