From patchwork Tue Sep 22 10:52:07 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: SeongJae Park X-Patchwork-Id: 11792169 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E4F6CB for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 223F02396D for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=amazon.com header.i=@amazon.com header.b="wBn1/vKi" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 223F02396D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=amazon.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kKfue-00021f-V1; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:52:44 +0000 Received: from all-amaz-eas1.inumbo.com ([34.197.232.57] helo=us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kKfud-00021a-Td for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:52:43 +0000 X-Inumbo-ID: c48b4a67-bb1f-4736-b368-abbfbf20cc3f Received: from smtp-fw-6001.amazon.com (unknown [52.95.48.154]) by us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id c48b4a67-bb1f-4736-b368-abbfbf20cc3f; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:52:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=amazon.com; i=@amazon.com; q=dns/txt; s=amazon201209; t=1600771963; x=1632307963; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version; bh=0dU7YfFywii/Po1R39ApRo2sKwRx3dgwXOoeAeCRN34=; b=wBn1/vKi+LvApNsPZo5VhMDLIxBPJJcXxrodg5ZXgaBcy5SJqbML8st0 Xsur+C2f18Ihr3hKUfRBke3QcNqtmIhRROZx3VlgZPGyhdrUAm1hKXRa+ C26ObtKXoWwy+hH8Ed309N5XmyF3+dR/Z3aHoEV+CZmLb446jrf6x5XT6 w=; X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,290,1596499200"; d="scan'208";a="56925064" Received: from iad12-co-svc-p1-lb1-vlan3.amazon.com (HELO email-inbound-relay-1d-2c665b5d.us-east-1.amazon.com) ([10.43.8.6]) by smtp-border-fw-out-6001.iad6.amazon.com with ESMTP; 22 Sep 2020 10:52:42 +0000 Received: from EX13D31EUA004.ant.amazon.com (iad12-ws-svc-p26-lb9-vlan2.iad.amazon.com [10.40.163.34]) by email-inbound-relay-1d-2c665b5d.us-east-1.amazon.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA02DA1DAD; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from u3f2cd687b01c55.ant.amazon.com (10.43.162.35) by EX13D31EUA004.ant.amazon.com (10.43.165.161) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1497.2; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:52:34 +0000 From: SeongJae Park To: , , CC: SeongJae Park , , , , , , , , Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:52:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20200922105209.5284-2-sjpark@amazon.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20200922105209.5284-1-sjpark@amazon.com> References: <20200922105209.5284-1-sjpark@amazon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.43.162.35] X-ClientProxiedBy: EX13D14UWB003.ant.amazon.com (10.43.161.162) To EX13D31EUA004.ant.amazon.com (10.43.165.161) Precedence: Bulk X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Sender: "Xen-devel" From: SeongJae Park 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 a module parameter for disabling of the feature. [1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park --- .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback | 9 ++++++ drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 28 ++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback index ecb7942ff146..ac2947b98950 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback @@ -35,3 +35,12 @@ Description: controls the duration in milliseconds that blkback will not cache any page not backed by a grant mapping. The default is 10ms. + +What: /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/feature_persistent +Date: September 2020 +KernelVersion: 5.10 +Contact: SeongJae Park +Description: + Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not. Note + that this option only takes effect on newly created backends. + The default is Y (enable). diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c index b9aa5d1ac10b..8a95ddd08b13 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c @@ -879,6 +879,12 @@ static void reclaim_memory(struct xenbus_device *dev) /* ** Connection ** */ +/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */ +static bool feature_persistent = true; +module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent, + "Enables the persistent grants feature"); + /* * Write the physical details regarding the block device to the store, and * switch to Connected state. @@ -906,11 +912,15 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info *be) xen_blkbk_barrier(xbt, be, be->blkif->vbd.flush_support); - err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u", 1); - if (err) { - xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "writing %s/feature-persistent", - dev->nodename); - goto abort; + if (feature_persistent) { + err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", + "%u", feature_persistent); + if (err) { + xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, + "writing %s/feature-persistent", + dev->nodename); + goto abort; + } } err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "sectors", "%llu", @@ -1093,8 +1103,12 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be) xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "unknown fe protocol %s", protocol); return -ENOSYS; } - pers_grants = xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend, "feature-persistent", - 0); + if (feature_persistent) + pers_grants = xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend, + "feature-persistent", 0); + else + pers_grants = 0; + blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = pers_grants; blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;