linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding grants

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Message-ID: <51F8DDEB.603@citrix.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:50:35 +0200
From:	Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
To:	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding
 grants

On 08/07/13 15:03, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> The following patches prevent blkfront from hoarding all grants in the 
> system by allowing blkfront to request blkback to unmap certain grants 
> so they can be freed by blkfront. This is done periodically by 
> blkfront, unmapping a certain amount of unused persistent grants.
> 
> This series also includes a bug fix for the grant table free callback 
> implementation.

Hello,

IMHO I think 1 should go in (at the end it's a bugfix) and backported to
stable. 2 and 4 (second version) can probably also go in?

Roger.
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