linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] xen/blkfront: make persistent grants per-queue

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Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2015 21:39:30 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	roger.pau@...rix.com, felipe.franciosi@...rix.com, axboe@...com,
	avanzini.arianna@...il.com, rafal.mielniczuk@...rix.com,
	jonathan.davies@...rix.com, david.vrabel@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] xen/blkfront: make persistent grants per-queue

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 12:21:45PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
> Make persistent grants per-queue/ring instead of per-device, so that we can
> drop the 'dev_lock' and get better scalability.

And what is the performance value for this? How much better
scalability do you get with this?
.. snip..
> @@ -1010,6 +1002,23 @@ static void blkif_free_ring(struct blkfront_ring_info *rinfo)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Remove all persistent grants */

Missing full stop.
> +	if (!list_empty(&rinfo->grants)) {
> +		list_for_each_entry_safe(persistent_gnt, n,
> +					 &rinfo->grants, node) {
> +			list_del(&persistent_gnt->node);
> +			if (persistent_gnt->gref != GRANT_INVALID_REF) {
> +				gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref,
> +							  0, 0UL);
> +				rinfo->persistent_gnts_c--;
> +			}
> +			if (info->feature_persistent)
> +				__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
> +			kfree(persistent_gnt);
> +		}
> +	}
> +	BUG_ON(rinfo->persistent_gnts_c != 0);
> +
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