Support virtio-scsi multiqueue for improved I/O performance on nova's guests
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Jorge San Emeterio
Add support to enable the virtio-scsi multiqueue feature on nova's guest instances.
With virtio-scsi multiqueue enabled, each vCPU will get their own queue and interrupts independently from the others, thus improving I/O performance in most cases. The libvirt driver will stick to a single queue by default, although indicating more than one will activate the feature with that many queues.
To control this feature, the following property will be added to a flavor extra specs:
hw:scsi_queues = 1 (unsigned integer & > 0)
For this property to be considered, these other two need to be set:
hw:disk_bus = virtio
hw:scsi_model = virtio-scsi
The setting can be overriden through an image metadata property:
hw_scsi_queues = 1 (unsigned integer & > 0)
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- Jorge San Emeterio
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- Jorge San Emeterio
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