Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] xen, blkback: add support for multiple block rings

[David Vrabel]

On 22/08/14 12:20, Arianna Avanzini wrote:
> This commit adds to xen-blkback the support to retrieve the block
> layer API being used and the number of available hardware queues,
> in case the block layer is using the multi-queue API. This commit
> also lets the driver advertise the number of available hardware
> queues to the frontend via XenStore, therefore allowing for actual
> multiple I/O rings to be used.

Does it make sense for number of queues should be dependent on the
number of queues available in the underlying block device?  What
behaviour do we want when a domain is migrated to a host with different
storage?

Can you split this patch up as well?

David
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