xen/block: add multi-page ring support

Extend xen/block to support multi-page ring, so that more requests can be
issued by using more than one pages as the request ring between blkfront
and backend.
As a result, the performance can get improved significantly.

We got some impressive improvements on our highend iscsi storage cluster
backend. If using 64 pages as the ring, the IOPS increased about 15 times
for the throughput testing and above doubled for the latency testing.

The reason was the limit on outstanding requests is 32 if use only one-page
ring, but in our case the iscsi lun was spread across about 100 physical
drives, 32 was really not enough to keep them busy.

Changes in v2:
 - Rebased to 4.0-rc6.
 - Document on how multi-page ring feature working to linux io/blkif.h.

Changes in v3:
 - Remove changes to linux io/blkif.h and follow the protocol defined
   in io/blkif.h of XEN tree.
 - Rebased to 4.1-rc3

Changes in v4:
 - Turn to use 'ring-page-order' and 'max-ring-page-order'.
 - A few comments from Roger.

Changes in v5:
 - Clarify with 4k granularity to comment
 - Address more comments from Roger

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index bd2b3bbbb22c..9121a2c3e26f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_persistent_grants,
                  "Maximum number of grants to map persistently");
 
 /*
+ * Maximum order of pages to be used for the shared ring between front and
+ * backend, 4KB page granularity is used.
+ */
+unsigned int xen_blkif_max_ring_order = XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGE_ORDER;
+module_param_named(max_ring_page_order, xen_blkif_max_ring_order, int, S_IRUGO);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_ring_page_order, "Maximum order of pages to be used for the shared ring");
+/*
  * The LRU mechanism to clean the lists of persistent grants needs to
  * be executed periodically. The time interval between consecutive executions
  * of the purge mechanism is set in ms.
@@ -1451,6 +1458,12 @@ static int __init xen_blkif_init(void)
 	if (!xen_domain())
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	if (xen_blkif_max_ring_order > XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGE_ORDER) {
+		pr_info("Invalid max_ring_order (%d), will use default max: %d.\n",
+			xen_blkif_max_ring_order, XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGE_ORDER);
+		xen_blkif_max_ring_order = XENBUS_MAX_RING_PAGE_ORDER;
+	}
+
 	rc = xen_blkif_interface_init();
 	if (rc)
 		goto failed_init;