From 26ec1909648e0c06ff06ebc3ddb2f88ebeeaa6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Goyal Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:27:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] virtiofsd: Do not use a thread pool by default Currently we created a thread pool (With 64 max threads per pool) for each virtqueue. We hoped that this will provide us with better scalability and performance. But in practice, we are getting better numbers in most of the cases when we don't create a thread pool at all and a single thread per virtqueue receives the request and processes it. Hence, I am proposing that we switch to no thread pool by default (equivalent of --thread-pool-size=0). This will provide out of box better performance to most of the users. In fact other users have confirmed that not using a thread pool gives them better numbers. So why not use this as default. It can be changed when somebody can fix the issues with thread pool performance. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Message-Id: <20210210182744.27324-2-vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert --- tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c index f78692ef66..1aa26c6333 100644 --- a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ #include -#define THREAD_POOL_SIZE 64 +#define THREAD_POOL_SIZE 0 #define OFFSET_MAX 0x7fffffffffffffffLL