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2013 Feb 28
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[PATCH RFC 05/12] xen-blkfront: remove frame list from blk_shadow
We already have the frame (pfn of the grant page) stored inside struct
grant, so there's no need to keep an aditional list of mapped frames
for a specific request. This reduces memory usage in blkfront.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
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drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 6 +-----
2012 Sep 19
27
[PATCH] Persistent grant maps for xen blk drivers
This patch implements persistent grants for the xen-blk{front,back}
mechanism. The effect of this change is to reduce the number of unmap
operations performed, since they cause a (costly) TLB shootdown. This
allows the I/O performance to scale better when a large number of VMs
are performing I/O.
Previously, the blkfront driver was supplied a bvec[] from the request
queue. This was granted to