[PATCH v3 0/3] xen-blk(back|front): Let users disable persistent grants

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Tue Sep 22 2020 - 10:19:25 EST


From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>

Persistent grants feature provides high scalability. On some small
systems, however, it could incur data copy overheads[1] and thus it is
required to be disabled. But, there is no option to disable it. For
the reason, this commit adds module parameters for disabling of the
feature.

[1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability

Baseline and Complete Git Trees
===============================

The patches are based on the v5.9-rc6. You can also clone the complete
git tree:

$ git clone git://github.com/sjp38/linux -b pgrants_disable_v3

The web is also available:
https://github.com/sjp38/linux/tree/pgrants_disable_v3

Patch History
=============

Changes from v2
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20200922105209.5284-1-sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx/)
- Avoid race conditions (Roger Pau Monné)

Changes from v1
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20200922070125.27251-1-sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx/)
- use 'bool' parameter type (Jürgen Groß)
- Let blkfront can also disable the feature from its side
(Roger Pau Monné)
- Avoid unnecessary xenbus_printf (Roger Pau Monné)
- Update frontend parameter doc


SeongJae Park (3):
xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants
xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants
xen-blkfront: Apply changed parameter name to the document

.../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback | 9 ++++++++
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront | 11 +++++++++-
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 22 ++++++++++++++-----
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 20 ++++++++++++-----
4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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