From c6cc142dac52e62e1e8a2aff5de1300202b96c66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Pau Monne Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:18:56 +0200 Subject: xen-blkback: use balloon pages for all mappings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Using balloon pages for all granted pages allows us to simplify the logic in blkback, especially in the xen_blkbk_map function, since now we can decide if we want to map a grant persistently or not after we have actually mapped it. This could not be done before because persistent grants used ballooned pages, whereas non-persistent grants used pages from the kernel. This patch also introduces several changes, the first one is that the list of free pages is no longer global, now each blkback instance has it's own list of free pages that can be used to map grants. Also, a run time parameter (max_buffer_pages) has been added in order to tune the maximum number of free pages each blkback instance will keep in it's buffer. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend index 3d5951c8bf5f..e04afe0cca99 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-xen-backend @@ -73,3 +73,11 @@ KernelVersion: 3.0 Contact: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Description: Number of sectors written by the frontend. + +What: /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/max_buffer_pages +Date: March 2013 +KernelVersion: 3.10 +Contact: Roger Pau Monné +Description: + Maximum number of free pages to keep in each block + backend buffer. -- cgit v1.2.1