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

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Message-ID: <604ab238-8a85-43af-bd97-2977fdfe1bbb@email.android.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:27:15 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding grants

"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@...rix.com> wrote:
>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.

Can you repost the patch series please with some of the comments addressed in the commit description  please.  Note that the patch series It says RFC on them :-) 
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