similar to: blkback does not copy full id from request to response

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

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

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

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

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

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 @@

...because vbd_size() dereferences bd_disk if bd_part is NULL. Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek<lersek@redhat.com> --- drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -r 415a9b435fef drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c --- a/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c Mon May 23 18:36:33 2011 +0100 +++ b/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c Wed May 25 12:15:26 2011 +0200 @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@

Patrick, there following patches fix xenpaging for me. Granttable handling is incomplete. If a page is gone, a GNTST_eagain should be returned to the caller to inidcate the hypercall has to be retried after a while, until the page is available again. Please review. Olaf _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

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> ---

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 everybody, I''ve finished with pci export from DomU to Dom0 (Debian Etch) but now i have a new problem, and a big one. My ethernet card is dropping packets but after some time (i can''t tell how) It can work for a day (not in production so not hard tested) and then all packets are dropped. Look at the ifconfig output : eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr

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.

From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers at novell.com> Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods of time. Make sure napi is scheduled subsequent to each napi_enable. Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers at

From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers at novell.com> Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods of time. Make sure napi is scheduled subsequent to each napi_enable. Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers at

While working on a database scaling problem using a SAP database test suite we discovered that these enterprise level large shared memory databases are very heavy users of mprotect(), to the extent that the performance overhead in current Xenolinux impacts scaling beyond a few cpus quite badly. A single cpu run under Xen has a nominal impact, but scaling out to 8 cpus results in a performance of

Just moving a chunk of files from one filesysstem on xvba to another on xvdb, and was monitoring with xentop as it was taking longer than expected. The VBD_RD and VBD_WR counters were both clocking-up as expected, as was the VBD_RSECT counter, but the VBD_WSECT counter was stuck on zero, I toggled on the individual VBD device counters and these showed the same (with the RD and WR counters

Just moving a chunk of files from one filesysstem on xvba to another on xvdb, and was monitoring with xentop as it was taking longer than expected. The VBD_RD and VBD_WR counters were both clocking-up as expected, as was the VBD_RSECT counter, but the VBD_WSECT counter was stuck on zero, I toggled on the individual VBD device counters and these showed the same (with the RD and WR counters

From: Santosh Jodh <santosh.jodh at citrix.com> Add support for multi page ring for block devices. The number of pages is configurable for blkback via module parameter. blkback reports max-ring-page-order to blkfront via xenstore. blkfront reports its supported ring-page-order to blkback via xenstore. blkfront reports multi page ring references via ring-refNN in xenstore. The change allows

From: Santosh Jodh <santosh.jodh at citrix.com> Add support for multi page ring for block devices. The number of pages is configurable for blkback via module parameter. blkback reports max-ring-page-order to blkfront via xenstore. blkfront reports its supported ring-page-order to blkback via xenstore. blkfront reports multi page ring references via ring-refNN in xenstore. The change allows