Commit c6cc142d authored by Roger Pau Monne's avatar Roger Pau Monne Committed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

xen-blkback: use balloon pages for all mappings

Using balloon pages for all granted pages allows us to simplify the
logic in blkback, especially in the xen_blkbk_map function, since now
we can decide if we want to map a grant persistently or not after we
have actually mapped it. This could not be done before because
persistent grants used ballooned pages, whereas non-persistent grants
used pages from the kernel.

This patch also introduces several changes, the first one is that the
list of free pages is no longer global, now each blkback instance has
it's own list of free pages that can be used to map grants. Also, a
run time parameter (max_buffer_pages) has been added in order to tune
the maximum number of free pages each blkback instance will keep in
it's buffer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
parent c1a15d08
......@@ -73,3 +73,11 @@ KernelVersion: 3.0
Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Description:
Number of sectors written by the frontend.
What: /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/max_buffer_pages
Date: March 2013
KernelVersion: 3.10
Contact: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Description:
Maximum number of free pages to keep in each block
backend buffer.
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......@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ struct xen_blkif {
struct rb_root persistent_gnts;
unsigned int persistent_gnt_c;
/* buffer of free pages to map grant refs */
spinlock_t free_pages_lock;
int free_pages_num;
struct list_head free_pages;
/* statistics */
unsigned long st_print;
unsigned long long st_rd_req;
......
......@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
blkif->st_print = jiffies;
init_waitqueue_head(&blkif->waiting_to_free);
blkif->persistent_gnts.rb_node = NULL;
spin_lock_init(&blkif->free_pages_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkif->free_pages);
blkif->free_pages_num = 0;
return blkif;
}
......
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