Hi Julien,

On 09/04/2015 09:51 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> On 04/09/15 11:08, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> Request allocation has been moved to connect_ring, which is called every
>> time blkback connects to the frontend (this can happen multiple times during
>> a blkback instance life cycle). On the other hand, request freeing has not
>> been moved, so it's only called when destroying the backend instance. Due to
>> this mismatch, blkback can allocate the request pool multiple times, without
>> freeing it.
>>
>> In order to fix it, move the freeing of requests to xen_blkif_disconnect to
>> restore the symmetry between request allocation and freeing.
>>
>> Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@citrix.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
>> Cc: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@citrix.com>
>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>
>> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
>> Cc: xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org
> 
> The patch is fixing my problem when using UEFI in the guest. Thank you!
> 

Could you please explain the problem you met a bit more?
So that I can know back port this patch if met similar issue.

Thanks,
-Bob
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