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| author | Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com> | 2013-04-17 20:18:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2013-04-18 15:29:22 +0200 |
| commit | c6cc142dac52e62e1e8a2aff5de1300202b96c66 (patch) | |
| tree | 6123fb46fd4f4e3c8460852c9b215edc7a1f1c7a /Documentation | |
| parent | xen-blkback: print stats about persistent grants (diff) | |
| download | linux-c6cc142dac52e62e1e8a2aff5de1300202b96c66.tar.xz linux-c6cc142dac52e62e1e8a2aff5de1300202b96c66.zip | |
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: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend index 3d5951c8bf5f..e04afe0cca99 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend @@ -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. |