similar to: [PATCH RFC 05/12] xen-blkfront: remove frame list from blk_shadow

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

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

refactoring balback Signed-off-by: Ronghui Duan <ronghui.duan@intel.com<mailto:ronghui.duan@intel.com>> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c index 73f196c..b4767f5 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(reqs, "Number of blkback requests to

add segring support in blkback Signed-off-by: Ronghui Duan <ronghui.duan@intel.com> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c index 45eda98..0bbc226 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ static int xen_blkif_reqs = 64; module_param_named(reqs, xen_blkif_reqs, int, 0);

Hello List, I have a small problem with the ring when transferring blocks the id on the response is different from the request. This is the boot up read, count 0. The guest requests block 0, it has to be located at 7c00. I go ahead and create a REQUEST with this data: ring_req = RING_GET_REQUEST(priv,priv->req_prod_pvt); ring_req->id = 9; ring_req->nr_segments=1; ring_req->operation

I''ve been having a look through scsifront again, and I saw this bit: ring_req->timeout_per_command = (sc->timeout_per_command / HZ); ring_req->nr_segments = 0; spin_unlock_irq(host->host_lock); scsifront_do_request(info); wait_event_interruptible(info->shadow[ring_req->rqid].wq_reset, info->shadow[ring_req->rqid].wait_reset); in

- introduce local variables (shortcuts for frequently used <dom>->grant_table) - adjust first parameter of mapcount() - drop lock acquisition from gnttab_get_version() - remove hard tabs and adjust formatting Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Tested-by: Andrew Thomas <andrew.thomas@oracle.com> --- a/xen/common/grant_table.c +++ b/xen/common/grant_table.c @@

gref->gref_id is unsigned so the error handling didn't work. gnttab_grant_foreign_access() returns an int type, so we can add a cast here, and it doesn't cause any problems. gnttab_grant_foreign_access() can return a variety of errors including -ENOSPC, -ENOSYS and -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c

gref->gref_id is unsigned so the error handling didn't work. gnttab_grant_foreign_access() returns an int type, so we can add a cast here, and it doesn't cause any problems. gnttab_grant_foreign_access() can return a variety of errors including -ENOSPC, -ENOSYS and -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c

gref->gref_id is unsigned so the error handling didn't work. gnttab_grant_foreign_access() returns an int type, so we can add a cast here, and it doesn't cause any problems. gnttab_grant_foreign_access() can return a variety of errors including -ENOSPC, -ENOSYS and -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c

Hi sahil: I think the reason why you cannot get page shared is due to the gref you got. Gref is responsible for a page allocated from domU, in my understanding it should not be 0, that is a gref 0 can not be shared, that''s why I skip gref 0 to be nominated. The gref is nominated to Xen and later used to find a corrspond MFN, so it shall not always be the same.

This patch makes the needlessly global blkif_getgeo() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- 6f34bfdbb8c24e06d982ccaccd24c25dba5b1956 diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index 9c6f3f9..ae7ee16 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static void blkif_restart_queue_callback(void

hi all, I have just ported pvonhvm drivers to ubuntu 10.10(2.6.35), for ubuntu 10.10 was comply to the pvops, so it has it''s own blkfront, so I just add platform-pci to ubuntu 10.10 source, and then compile, that''s ok, then I start the ubuntu 10.10 with pvonhvm, the domU can boot successfully, but after running a moment, it give the such warnings: INFO: task

hi all, I have just ported pvonhvm drivers to ubuntu 10.10(2.6.35), for ubuntu 10.10 was comply to the pvops, so it has it''s own blkfront, so I just add platform-pci to ubuntu 10.10 source, and then compile, that''s ok, then I start the ubuntu 10.10 with pvonhvm, the domU can boot successfully, but after running a moment, it give the such warnings: INFO: task

Hi all, I want to use ionice command change the priority of threads of blkback(in domain0) for each corresponding blkfront . However, I do not know how to recognize which is the thread for the corresponding blkfront using ps aux. Anybody can give me some advice? Thanks in advance! -- View this message in context:

Hi, I have (very) poor write performance with Xen PV, used over RBD, and I suppose it''s because of very short values for max_segments and max_segment_size. (I have 250MB/s write speed in Dom0 vs 40MB/s write speed in DomU) From what I read, there is already a patch to fix that, called "multi page ring support for block devices" :

I want to know how xend handle those messages, got lost in those files. Which file I should look for those codes? Thanks, -x ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.

Frontends are expected to write their protocol ABI to xenstore. Since the protocol ABI defaults to the backend's native ABI, things work fine without that as long as the frontend's native ABI is identical to the backend's native ABI. This is not the case for xen-blkfront running 32-on-64, because its ABI differs between 32 and 64 bit, and thus needs this fix. Based on

Frontends are expected to write their protocol ABI to xenstore. Since the protocol ABI defaults to the backend's native ABI, things work fine without that as long as the frontend's native ABI is identical to the backend's native ABI. This is not the case for xen-blkfront running 32-on-64, because its ABI differs between 32 and 64 bit, and thus needs this fix. Based on

We should hang onto bdev until we're done with it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com> --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index 2f22874..5d45688 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -1410,7 +1410,6