On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:10:15AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 31/07/13 16:00, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > There's no need to keep the foreign access in a grant if it is not
> > persistently mapped by the backend. This allows us to free grants that
> > are not mapped by the backend, thus preventing blkfront from hoarding
> > all grants.
> >
> > The main effect of this is that blkfront will only persistently map
> > the same grants as the backend, and it will always try to use grants
> > that are already mapped by the backend. Also the number of persistent
> > grants in blkfront is the same as in blkback (and is controlled by the
> > value in blkback).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
Roger,
Could you repost patch #2 and #3 (as #1 is in v3.11-rc4) with the
comments and the Ack from Matt and Roger's Review-by tag addressed?
Thanks.
>
> But please see the documentation updates needed below.
>
> > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > @@ -1016,13 +1016,38 @@ static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s,
> > struct blkfront_info *info,
> > }
> > /* Add the persistent grant into the list of free grants */
> > for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
> > - list_add(&s->grants_used[i]->node, &info->persistent_gnts);
> > - info->persistent_gnts_c++;
> > + if (gnttab_query_foreign_access(s->grants_used[i]->gref)) {
> > + /*
> > + * If the grant is still mapped by the backend (the
> > + * backend has chosen to make this grant persistent)
> > + * we add it at the head of the list, so it will be
> > + * reused first.
> > + */
> > + list_add(&s->grants_used[i]->node,
> > &info->persistent_gnts);
> > + info->persistent_gnts_c++;
> > + } else {
> > + /*
> > + * If the grant is not mapped by the backend we end the
> > + * foreign access and add it to the tail of the list,
> > + * so it will not be picked again unless we run out of
> > + * persistent grants.
> > + */
> > + gnttab_end_foreign_access(s->grants_used[i]->gref, 0,
> > 0UL);
> > + s->grants_used[i]->gref = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
> > + list_add_tail(&s->grants_used[i]->node,
> > &info->persistent_gnts);
> > + }
>
> Because you only reclaim grants when a request is completed, can you add
> text similar to the following to xen/include/public/io/blkif.h (and the
> Linux copy).
>
> feature-persistent:
> ...
> When the backend driver needs to unmap a persistent grant it should
> do so prior to completing a request that used that grant reference.
> If a persistent grant is unmapped at any other time, the frontend
> driver may not notice and may be unable to reclaim the grant
> reference.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
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