linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 1/3] xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants

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Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:18:39 +0200
From:   SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>
To:     <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, <roger.pau@...rix.com>, <jgross@...e.com>
CC:     SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>, <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        <aliguori@...zon.com>, <amit@...nel.org>, <mheyne@...zon.de>,
        <pdurrant@...zon.co.uk>, <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants

From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>

Persistent grants feature provides high scalability.  On some small
systems, however, it could incur data copy overheads[1] and thus it is
required to be disabled.  But, there is no option to disable it.  For
the reason, this commit adds a module parameter for disabling of the
feature.

[1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
---
 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback      |  9 ++++++++
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c            | 22 ++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
index ecb7942ff146..ac2947b98950 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
@@ -35,3 +35,12 @@ Description:
                 controls the duration in milliseconds that blkback will not
                 cache any page not backed by a grant mapping.
                 The default is 10ms.
+
+What:           /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/feature_persistent
+Date:           September 2020
+KernelVersion:  5.10
+Contact:        SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
+Description:
+                Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not.  Note
+                that this option only takes effect on newly created backends.
+                The default is Y (enable).
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index b9aa5d1ac10b..8fc34211dc8b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -474,6 +474,12 @@ static void xen_vbd_free(struct xen_vbd *vbd)
 	vbd->bdev = NULL;
 }
 
+/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */
+static bool feature_persistent = true;
+module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent,
+		"Enables the persistent grants feature");
+
 static int xen_vbd_create(struct xen_blkif *blkif, blkif_vdev_t handle,
 			  unsigned major, unsigned minor, int readonly,
 			  int cdrom)
@@ -519,6 +525,8 @@ static int xen_vbd_create(struct xen_blkif *blkif, blkif_vdev_t handle,
 	if (q && blk_queue_secure_erase(q))
 		vbd->discard_secure = true;
 
+	vbd->feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent;
+
 	pr_debug("Successful creation of handle=%04x (dom=%u)\n",
 		handle, blkif->domid);
 	return 0;
@@ -906,7 +914,8 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info *be)
 
 	xen_blkbk_barrier(xbt, be, be->blkif->vbd.flush_support);
 
-	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u", 1);
+	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u",
+			be->blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent);
 	if (err) {
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "writing %s/feature-persistent",
 				 dev->nodename);
@@ -1067,7 +1076,6 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
 {
 	struct xenbus_device *dev = be->dev;
 	struct xen_blkif *blkif = be->blkif;
-	unsigned int pers_grants;
 	char protocol[64] = "";
 	int err, i;
 	char *xspath;
@@ -1093,9 +1101,11 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "unknown fe protocol %s", protocol);
 		return -ENOSYS;
 	}
-	pers_grants = xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend, "feature-persistent",
-					   0);
-	blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = pers_grants;
+	if (blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent)
+		blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent =
+			xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend,
+					"feature-persistent", 0);
+
 	blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;
 
 	/*
@@ -1118,7 +1128,7 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
 
 	pr_info("%s: using %d queues, protocol %d (%s) %s\n", dev->nodename,
 		 blkif->nr_rings, blkif->blk_protocol, protocol,
-		 pers_grants ? "persistent grants" : "");
+		 blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent ? "persistent grants" : "");
 
 	ring_page_order = xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend,
 					       "ring-page-order", 0);
-- 
2.17.1