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authorMax Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>2021-09-02 22:46:22 +0200
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2021-11-01 09:29:47 +0100
commit0989c41bed96e5dcf7939c6303e3759f02c4c16f (patch)
treec1e2b7077e17bbdbfd8ffd66bbaf7da608734f1e /drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
parentvirtio-blk: avoid preallocating big SGL for data (diff)
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virtio-blk: add num_request_queues module parameter
Sometimes a user would like to control the amount of request queues to be created for a block device. For example, for limiting the memory footprint of virtio-blk devices. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210902204622.54354-1-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/virtio_blk.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/virtio_blk.c23
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index 6767fb709d25..a33fe0743672 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -30,6 +30,25 @@
#define VIRTIO_BLK_INLINE_SG_CNT 2
#endif
+static int virtblk_queue_count_set(const char *val,
+ const struct kernel_param *kp)
+{
+ return param_set_uint_minmax(val, kp, 1, nr_cpu_ids);
+}
+
+static const struct kernel_param_ops queue_count_ops = {
+ .set = virtblk_queue_count_set,
+ .get = param_get_uint,
+};
+
+static unsigned int num_request_queues;
+module_param_cb(num_request_queues, &queue_count_ops, &num_request_queues,
+ 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(num_request_queues,
+ "Limit the number of request queues to use for blk device. "
+ "0 for no limit. "
+ "Values > nr_cpu_ids truncated to nr_cpu_ids.");
+
static int major;
static DEFINE_IDA(vd_index_ida);
@@ -553,7 +572,9 @@ static int init_vq(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
if (err)
num_vqs = 1;
- num_vqs = min_t(unsigned int, nr_cpu_ids, num_vqs);
+ num_vqs = min_t(unsigned int,
+ min_not_zero(num_request_queues, nr_cpu_ids),
+ num_vqs);
vblk->vqs = kmalloc_array(num_vqs, sizeof(*vblk->vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vblk->vqs)