blkio: add libblkio block driver
commitfd66dbd424f5c90fcff3d27afed2c6c59d8be3ac
authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:58:57 +0000 (13 14:58 -0400)
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:56:42 +0000 (26 14:56 -0400)
tree9c18572891ca933ea37438d32b6e26733a6277d5
parent0421b563ab4d947a388078331c057daa9b979f41
blkio: add libblkio block driver

libblkio (https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio/) is a library for
high-performance disk I/O. It currently supports io_uring,
virtio-blk-vhost-user, and virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa with additional drivers
under development.

One of the reasons for developing libblkio is that other applications
besides QEMU can use it. This will be particularly useful for
virtio-blk-vhost-user which applications may wish to use for connecting
to qemu-storage-daemon.

libblkio also gives us an opportunity to develop in Rust behind a C API
that is easy to consume from QEMU.

This commit adds io_uring, nvme-io_uring, virtio-blk-vhost-user, and
virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa BlockDrivers to QEMU using libblkio. It will be
easy to add other libblkio drivers since they will share the majority of
code.

For now I/O buffers are copied through bounce buffers if the libblkio
driver requires it. Later commits add an optimization for
pre-registering guest RAM to avoid bounce buffers.

The syntax is:

  --blockdev io_uring,node-name=drive0,filename=test.img,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on|off

  --blockdev nvme-io_uring,node-name=drive0,filename=/dev/ng0n1,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on

  --blockdev virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa,node-name=drive0,path=/dev/vdpa...,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on

  --blockdev virtio-blk-vhost-user,node-name=drive0,path=vhost-user-blk.sock,readonly=on|off,cache.direct=on

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20221013185908.1297568-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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block/blkio.c [new file with mode: 0644]
block/meson.build
meson.build
meson_options.txt
qapi/block-core.json
scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh
tests/qtest/modules-test.c