linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 0/4] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback

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Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:20:00 +0200
From:	Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@...il.com>
To:	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
	david.vrabel@...rix.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bob.liu@...cle.com, felipe.franciosi@...rix.com, axboe@...com,
	avanzini.arianna@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback

Hello,

this patchset adds to the Xen PV block driver support to exploit the multi-
queue block layer API by sharing and using multiple I/O rings in the frontend
and backend. It is the result of my internship for GNOME's Outreach Program
for Women ([1]), in which I was mentored by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.

The patchset implements in the backend driver the retrieval of information
about the currently-in-use block layer API for a certain device and about
the number of available submission queues, if the API turns out to be the
multi-queue one. The information is then advertised to the frontend driver
via XenStore. The frontend device can exploit such an information to allocate
and grant multiple I/O rings that the backend will be able to map.
The patchset has been tested with fio's IOmeter emulation on a four-cores
machine with a null_blk device (some results are available here: [2]).

This patch series is just an RFC prototype. Any comments or suggestions are
more than welcome.
Thank you,
Arianna

[1] http://goo.gl/bcvHMh
[2] http://goo.gl/O8RlLL

Arianna Avanzini (4):
  xen, blkfront: add support for the multi-queue block layer API
  xen, blkfront: factor out flush-related checks from do_blkif_request()
  xen, blkfront: introduce support for multiple hw queues
  xen, blkback: add support for multiple block rings

 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 376 ++++++++-------
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  | 111 +++--
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  | 475 ++++++++++++-------
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        | 886 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 4 files changed, 1151 insertions(+), 697 deletions(-)

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2.0.4

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