From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> 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. It can be disabled from blkback side using a module parameter, 'feature_persistent'. But, it is impossible from blkfront side. For the reason, this commit adds a blkfront module parameter for disabling of the feature. [1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> --- .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront | 9 +++++++++ drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 20 ++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront index c0a6cb7eb314..9c31334cb2e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront @@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ Description: is 32 - higher value means more potential throughput but more memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend and its default backend value. + +What: /sys/module/xen_blkfront/parameters/feature_persistent +Date: September 2020 +KernelVersion: 5.10 +Contact: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> +Description: + Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not. Note + that this option only takes effect on newly created frontends. + The default is Y (enable). diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index 91de2e0755ae..b2d3b1262404 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -1866,8 +1866,8 @@ static int talk_to_blkback(struct xenbus_device *dev, message = "writing protocol"; goto abort_transaction; } - err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, - "feature-persistent", "%u", 1); + err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u", + info->feature_persistent); if (err) dev_warn(&dev->dev, "writing persistent grants feature to xenbus"); @@ -1941,6 +1941,13 @@ static int negotiate_mq(struct blkfront_info *info) } return 0; } + +/* 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"); + /** * Entry point to this code when a new device is created. Allocate the basic * structures and the ring buffer for communication with the backend, and @@ -2007,6 +2014,8 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev, info->vdevice = vdevice; info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_DISCONNECTED; + info->feature_persistent = feature_persistent ? 1 : 0; + /* Front end dir is a number, which is used as the id. */ info->handle = simple_strtoul(strrchr(dev->nodename, '/')+1, NULL, 0); dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, info); @@ -2316,9 +2325,10 @@ static void blkfront_gather_backend_features(struct blkfront_info *info) if (xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, "feature-discard", 0)) blkfront_setup_discard(info); - info->feature_persistent = - !!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, - "feature-persistent", 0); + if (info->feature_persistent) + info->feature_persistent = + !!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, + "feature-persistent", 0); indirect_segments = xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, "feature-max-indirect-segments", 0); -- 2.17.1
