During reset the aio_poll() function is called at least amount_of_disks^2 times:
for_each disk virtio_blk_reset() bdrv_drain_all() for_each disk aio_poll() For example, startup with 1000 disks takes over 13 minutes. Patch 1/2 removes inner loop by using bdrv_drain() instead of bdrv_drain_all(). bdrv_drain() works on one disk at time. Since bdrv_drain_all() is still called in other places, patch 2/2 optimizes it for cases, where there are more disks than iothreads. Thanks. Alexander Yarygin (2): block-backend: Introduce blk_drain() and replace blk_drain_all() block: Let bdrv_drain_all() to call aio_poll() for each AioContext block/block-backend.c | 5 +++++ block/io.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 2 +- include/sysemu/block-backend.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1