similar to: [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-3.5 for 3.5-rc2..

This patch contains fixes for persistent grants implementation v2: * handle == 0 is a valid handle, so initialize grants in blkback setting the handle to BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE instead of 0. Reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk. * new_map is a boolean, use "true" or "false" instead of 1 and 0. Reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk. * blkfront announces the

Hey, Linus released this Saturday v3.5 and there were quite a few of interesting components/fixes/features that went in! Going to go down the list of what shortlog provided: - Less MSR traps when using AMD machines - so better performance. [andre] - The APIC IPI interface works - which means that ''perf'' in the initial domain works. So no more lockups. Also with some

Hey Jens, Please in your spare time (if there is such a thing at a conference) pull this branch: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.10 for your v3.10 branch. Sorry for being so late with this. <blurb> It has the ''feature-max-indirect-segments'' implemented in both backend and frontend. The current problem with the backend and

I am proposing these two patches for 3.2. They allow the backend to process the REQ_FUA request as well. Previous to these patches it only did REQ_FLUSH. There is also a bug-fix for the logic of how barrier/flushes were handled. The patches are based on a branch which also has ''feature-discard'' patches, so they won''t apply nativly on top of 3.1-rc5. Please review and

In blkback driver, after I/O requests are submitted to Dom-0 block I/O subsystem, blkback goes to ''sleep'' effectively without letting blkfront know about it (req_event isn''t set appropriately). Hence blkfront doesn''t notify blkback when it submits a new I/O thus delaying the ''dispatch'' of the new I/O to Dom-0 block I/O subsystem. The new I/O is

Dear list, This is the V4 of the trim support for xen-blkfront/blkback, Now we move BLKIF_OP_TRIM to BLKIF_OP_DISCARD, and dropped all "trim" stuffs in the patches, and use "discard" instead. Also we updated the helpers of blkif_x86_{32|64}_request or we will meet problems using a non-native protocol. And this patch has been tested with both SSD and raw file, with SSD we will

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

With the introduction of indirect segments we can receive requests with a number of segments bigger than the maximum number of allowed iovecs in a bios, so make sure that blkback doesn't try to allocate a bios with more iovecs than BIO_MAX_PAGES Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> ---

I accidentally realized today that any domU''s using the paravirt disk driver potentially suffer from poor performance when they get handed in a physical volume and partitioning is done inside the guest. The physical volume passed in has to be one that has the compat 512 logical sector size but hints its real sector size (eg. 4096) as physical sector size. In dom0 handling is correct and

Hi Konrad, Does this look at all familiar? There is some more info in the full bug log at http://bugs.debian.org/637234 . In particular, contrary to the message below, the user subsequently confirmed that the issue appears to be Xen specific (doesn''t happen on native or vmware) and that it arose between 2.6.39-2-686-pae and 3.0.0-1-686-pae. Could it be related to edf6ef59ec7e

When backend disconnect, sync IO requests to the disk. Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c

Hi, Here is the refreshed version of the multi-page ring patch for blkfront and blkback. I currently don''t have time to refresh the blktap part of the patch. The patch should apply cleanly to the following changeset in the linux 2.6.18 tree: changeset: 752:0b859c9516ba tag: qparent parent: 751:6591b4869889 parent: 748:5012c470f875 user: Keir Fraser

Hi all, I add a blkback QoS patch. You can config(dynamic/static) different I/O speed for different VM disk by this patch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff -urNp blkback/blkback.c blkback-qos/blkback.c --- blkback/blkback.c 2011-06-22 07:54:19.000000000 +0800 +++ blkback-qos/blkback.c 2011-06-22 07:53:18.000000000 +0800 @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@

Hi all, I add a blkback QoS patch. You can config(dynamic/static) different I/O speed for different VM disk by this patch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff -urNp blkback/blkback.c blkback-qos/blkback.c --- blkback/blkback.c 2011-06-22 07:54:19.000000000 +0800 +++ blkback-qos/blkback.c 2011-06-22 07:53:18.000000000 +0800 @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@

Moving grant ref handles from blkbk to pending_req will allow us to get rid of the shared blkbk structure. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git

> Just making sure.. you''re running Xen 4.1 ? > The userspace qemu blkback implementation is *only* in Xen 4.1 .. > And it should get used automatically if dom0 kernel blkback is not available. Attempt of DomU install env above :- # xl create -c f14.install Parsing config file f14.install Daemon running with PID 3411                             [    0.000000] Initializing

Hey Roger, I am seeing this weird behavior when using #linux-next + stable/for-jens-3.8 tree. Basically I can do ''pvscan'' on xvd* disk and quite often I get checksum errors: # pvscan /dev/xvdf PV /dev/xvdf2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [18.88 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/dm-14 VG vg_x86_64-pvhvm lvm2 [4.00 GiB / 68.00 MiB free] PV /dev/dm-12 VG vg_i386-pvhvm lvm2

Hi Konrad / Yu Ke, I have tried konrad''s master tree: commit 329408d788f62629131ea28c112e973878d52c9e Merge: e370fe2 773f8cf Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Date: Thu May 19 14:37:32 2011 -0400 Merge branch ''linux-next'' With a xen-4.1.0 hypervisor, on my AMD x6 phenom. Curious if Xen Power Management would work... Output of all xenpm

Use bitmap_set and bitmap_clear rather than modifying individual bits in a memory region. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita at gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel at lists.xensource.com Cc: virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |

Use bitmap_set and bitmap_clear rather than modifying individual bits in a memory region. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita at gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com> Cc: xen-devel at lists.xensource.com Cc: virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |