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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Persistent grant maps for xen blk drivers



On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:51:27AM +0100, Oliver Chick wrote:
> This patch implements persistent grants for the xen-blk{front,back}
> mechanism. The effect of this change is to reduce the number of unmap
> operations performed, since they cause a (costly) TLB shootdown. This
> allows the I/O performance to scale better when a large number of VMs
> are performing I/O.
> 
> Previously, the blkfront driver was supplied a bvec[] from the request
> queue. This was granted to dom0; dom0 performed the I/O and wrote
> directly into the grant-mapped memory and unmapped it; blkfront then
> removed foreign access for that grant. The cost of unmapping scales
> badly with the number of CPUs in Dom0. An experiment showed that when
> Dom0 has 24 VCPUs, and guests are performing parallel I/O to a
> ramdisk, the IPIs from performing unmap's is a bottleneck at 5 guests
> (at which point 650,000 IOPS are being performed in total). If more
> than 5 guests are used, the performance declines. By 10 guests, only
> 400,000 IOPS are being performed.
> 
> This patch improves performance by only unmapping when the connection
> between blkfront and back is broken.
> 
> On startup, blk{front,back} use xenbus to communicate their ability to
> perform 'feature-persistent'. Iff both ends have this ability,
> persistent mode is used.
> 
> To perform a read, in persistent mode, blkfront uses a separate pool
> of pages that it maps to dom0. When a request comes in, blkfront
> transmutes the request so that blkback will write into one of these
> free pages. Blkback keeps note of which grefs it has already
> mapped. When a new ring request comes to blkback, it looks to see if
> it has already mapped that page. If so, it will not map it again. If
> the page hasn't been previously mapped, it is mapped now, and a record
> is kept of this mapping. Blkback proceeds as usual. When blkfront is
> notified that blkback has completed a request, it memcpy's from the
> shared memory, into the bvec supplied. A record that the {gref, page}
> tuple is mapped, and not inflight is kept.
> 
> Writes are similar, except that the memcpy is peformed from the
> supplied bvecs, into the shared pages, before the request is put onto
> the ring.
> 
> Blkback has to store a mapping of grefs=>{page mapped to by gref} in
> an array. As the grefs are not known apriori, and provide no
> guarantees on their ordering, we have to perform a linear search
> through this array to find the page, for every gref we receive. The
> overhead of this is low, however future work might want to use a more
> efficient data structure to reduce this O(n) operation.
> 
> We (ijc, and myself) have introduced a new constant,
> BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV. This is to prevent a malicious guest
> from attempting a DoS, by supplying fresh grefs, causing the Dom0
> kernel from to map excessively. This is currently set to 256---the
> maximum number of entires in the ring. As the number of inflight
> requests <= size of ring, 256 is also the maximum sensible size. This
> introduces a maximum overhead of 11MB of mapped memory, per block
> device. In practice, we don't typically use about 60 of these. If the
> guest exceeds the 256 limit, it is either buggy or malicious. We treat
> this in one of two ways:
> 1) If we have mapped <
> BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST * BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV
> pages, we will persistently map the grefs. This can occur is previous
> requests have not used all BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST segments.
> 2) Otherwise, we revert to non-persistent grants for all future grefs.
> 
> In writing this patch, the question arrises as to if the additional
> cost of performing memcpys in the guest (to/from the pool of granted
> pages) outweigh the gains of not performing TLB shootdowns. The answer
> to that question is `no'. There appears to be very little, if any
> additional cost to the guest of using persistent grants. There is
> perhaps a small saving, from the reduced number of hypercalls
> performed in granting, and ending foreign access.

I can't apply the patch to test it out?

patch -p1 < /tmp/blk 
patching file drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 213:  


> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |  149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |   16 +++
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  |   21 +++-
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        |  186 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h    |    9 ++
>  5 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c 
> b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> index 73f196c..f95dee9 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct pending_req {
>       unsigned short          operation;
>       int                     status;
>       struct list_head        free_list;
> +     u8                      is_pers;
>  };
>  
>  #define BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE (~0)
> @@ -128,6 +129,24 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>  static void make_response(struct xen_blkif *blkif, u64 id,
>                         unsigned short op, int st);
>  
> +static void add_pers_gnt(struct pers_gnt *pers_gnt, struct xen_blkif *blkif)
> +{
> +     BUG_ON(blkif->pers_gnt_c >= BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV *
> +            BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
> +     blkif->pers_gnts[blkif->pers_gnt_c++] = pers_gnt;
> +}
> +
> +static struct pers_gnt *get_pers_gnt(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
> +                                  grant_ref_t gref)
> +{
> +     int i;
> +
> +     for (i = 0; i < blkif->pers_gnt_c; i++)
> +             if (gref == blkif->pers_gnts[i]->gnt)
> +                     return blkif->pers_gnts[i];
> +     return NULL;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Retrieve from the 'pending_reqs' a free pending_req structure to be used.
>   */
> @@ -274,6 +293,12 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
>  {
>       struct xen_blkif *blkif = arg;
>       struct xen_vbd *vbd = &blkif->vbd;
> +     struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref unmap[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct page *pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct pers_gnt *pers_gnt;
> +     int i;
> +     int ret = 0;
> +     int segs_to_unmap;
>  
>       xen_blkif_get(blkif);
>  
> @@ -301,6 +326,29 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
>                       print_stats(blkif);
>       }
>  
> +     /* Free all persistent grant pages */
> +
> +     while (segs_to_unmap = min(BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST,
> +                              blkif->pers_gnt_c)) {
> +
> +             for (i = 0; i < segs_to_unmap; i++) {
> +                     pers_gnt = blkif->pers_gnts[blkif->pers_gnt_c - i - 1];
> +
> +                     gnttab_set_unmap_op(&unmap[i],
> +                                         pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(
> +                                                          pers_gnt->page)),
> +                                         GNTMAP_host_map,
> +                                         pers_gnt->handle);
> +
> +                     pages[i] = pers_gnt->page;
> +             }
> +
> +             ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, pages, segs_to_unmap, false);
> +             BUG_ON(ret);
> +
> +             blkif->pers_gnt_c -= segs_to_unmap;
> +
> +     }
> +
>       if (log_stats)
>               print_stats(blkif);
>  
> @@ -343,13 +391,28 @@ static void xen_blkbk_unmap(struct pending_req *req)
>  
>  static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_request *req,
>                        struct pending_req *pending_req,
> -                      struct seg_buf seg[])
> +                      struct seg_buf seg[],
> +                      struct page *pages[])
>  {
>       struct gnttab_map_grant_ref map[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct pers_gnt *new_pers_gnts[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct pers_gnt *pers_gnts[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct page *pages_to_gnt[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct pers_gnt *pers_gnt;
> +     phys_addr_t addr;
>       int i;
> +     int new_map;
>       int nseg = req->u.rw.nr_segments;
> +     int segs_to_init = 0;
>       int ret = 0;
> +     int use_pers_gnts;
>  
> +     use_pers_gnts = (pending_req->blkif->can_grant_persist &&
> +                      pending_req->blkif->pers_gnt_c <
> +                      BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST *
> +                      BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV);
> +
> +     pending_req->is_pers = use_pers_gnts;
>       /*
>        * Fill out preq.nr_sects with proper amount of sectors, and setup
>        * assign map[..] with the PFN of the page in our domain with the
> @@ -358,36 +421,87 @@ static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_request *req,
>       for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
>               uint32_t flags;
>  
> +             if (use_pers_gnts) {
> +                     pers_gnt = get_pers_gnt(pending_req->blkif,
> +                                             req->u.rw.seg[i].gref);
> +                     if (!pers_gnt) {
> +                             new_map = 1;
> +                             pers_gnt = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pers_gnt),
> +                                                GFP_KERNEL);
> +                             if (!pers_gnt)
> +                                     return -ENOMEM;
> +                             pers_gnt->page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> +                             if (!pers_gnt->page)
> +                                     return -ENOMEM;
> +                             pers_gnt->gnt = req->u.rw.seg[i].gref;
> +
> +                             pages_to_gnt[segs_to_init] = pers_gnt->page;
> +                             new_pers_gnts[segs_to_init] = pers_gnt;
> +
> +                             add_pers_gnt(pers_gnt, pending_req->blkif);
> +
> +                     } else {
> +                             new_map = 0;
> +                     }
> +                     pages[i] = pers_gnt->page;
> +                     addr = (unsigned long) pfn_to_kaddr(
> +                             page_to_pfn(pers_gnt->page));
> +                     pers_gnts[i] = pers_gnt;
> +             } else {
> +                     new_map = 1;
> +                     pages[i] = blkbk->pending_page(pending_req, i);
> +                     addr = vaddr(pending_req, i);
> +                     pages_to_gnt[i] = blkbk->pending_page(pending_req, i);
> +             }
> +
>               flags = GNTMAP_host_map;
> -             if (pending_req->operation != BLKIF_OP_READ)
> +             if (!use_pers_gnts && (pending_req->operation != BLKIF_OP_READ))
>                       flags |= GNTMAP_readonly;
> -             gnttab_set_map_op(&map[i], vaddr(pending_req, i), flags,
> -                               req->u.rw.seg[i].gref,
> -                               pending_req->blkif->domid);
> +             if (new_map) {
> +                     gnttab_set_map_op(&map[segs_to_init++], addr,
> +                                       flags, req->u.rw.seg[i].gref,
> +                                       pending_req->blkif->domid);
> +             }
>       }
>  
> -     ret = gnttab_map_refs(map, NULL, &blkbk->pending_page(pending_req, 0), 
> nseg);
> -     BUG_ON(ret);
> +     if (segs_to_init) {
> +             ret = gnttab_map_refs(map, NULL, pages_to_gnt, segs_to_init);
> +             BUG_ON(ret);
> +     }
>  
>       /*
>        * Now swizzle the MFN in our domain with the MFN from the other domain
>        * so that when we access vaddr(pending_req,i) it has the contents of
>        * the page from the other domain.
>        */
> -     for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
> +     for (i = 0; i < segs_to_init; i++) {
>               if (unlikely(map[i].status != 0)) {
>                       pr_debug(DRV_PFX "invalid buffer -- could not remap 
> it\n");
>                       map[i].handle = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
>                       ret |= 1;
>               }
>  
> -             pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[i].handle;
> +             if (use_pers_gnts) {
> +                     /* store the `out' values from map */
> +                 pending_req->blkif->pers_gnts
> +                     [pending_req->blkif->pers_gnt_c - segs_to_init +
> +                      i]->handle = map[i].handle;
> +                     new_pers_gnts[i]->dev_bus_addr = map[i].dev_bus_addr;
> +             }
>  
>               if (ret)
>                       continue;
> -
> -             seg[i].buf  = map[i].dev_bus_addr |
> -                     (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
> +     }
> +     for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
> +             if (use_pers_gnts) {
> +                     pending_handle(pending_req, i) = pers_gnts[i]->handle;
> +                     seg[i].buf = pers_gnts[i]->dev_bus_addr |
> +                             (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
> +             } else {
> +                     pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[i].handle;
> +                     seg[i].buf = map[i].dev_bus_addr |
> +                             (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
> +             }
>       }
>       return ret;
>  }
> @@ -468,7 +582,8 @@ static void __end_block_io_op(struct pending_req 
> *pending_req, int error)
>        * the proper response on the ring.
>        */
>       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&pending_req->pendcnt)) {
> -             xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req);
> +             if (!pending_req->is_pers)
> +                     xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req);
>               make_response(pending_req->blkif, pending_req->id,
>                             pending_req->operation, pending_req->status);
>               xen_blkif_put(pending_req->blkif);
> @@ -590,6 +705,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>       int operation;
>       struct blk_plug plug;
>       bool drain = false;
> +     struct page *pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
>  
>       switch (req->operation) {
>       case BLKIF_OP_READ:
> @@ -676,7 +792,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>        * the hypercall to unmap the grants - that is all done in
>        * xen_blkbk_unmap.
>        */
> -     if (xen_blkbk_map(req, pending_req, seg))
> +     if (xen_blkbk_map(req, pending_req, seg, pages))
>               goto fail_flush;
>  
>       /*
> @@ -688,7 +804,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>       for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
>               while ((bio == NULL) ||
>                      (bio_add_page(bio,
> -                                  blkbk->pending_page(pending_req, i),
> +                                  pages[i],
>                                    seg[i].nsec << 9,
>                                    seg[i].buf & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)) {
>  
> @@ -743,7 +859,8 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>       return 0;
>  
>   fail_flush:
> -     xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req);
> +     if (!blkif->can_grant_persist)
> +             xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req);
>   fail_response:
>       /* Haven't submitted any bio's yet. */
>       make_response(blkif, req->u.rw.id, req->operation, BLKIF_RSP_ERROR);
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h 
> b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> index 9ad3b5e..1ecb709 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
>  #define DPRINTK(fmt, args...)                                \
>       pr_debug(DRV_PFX "(%s:%d) " fmt ".\n",          \
>                __func__, __LINE__, ##args)
> +#define BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV 256
> +
>  
>  
>  /* Not a real protocol.  Used to generate ring structs which contain
> @@ -164,6 +166,14 @@ struct xen_vbd {
>  
>  struct backend_info;
>  
> +
> +struct pers_gnt {
> +     struct page *page;
> +     grant_ref_t gnt;
> +     uint32_t handle;
> +     uint64_t dev_bus_addr;
> +};
> +
>  struct xen_blkif {
>       /* Unique identifier for this interface. */
>       domid_t                 domid;
> @@ -190,6 +200,12 @@ struct xen_blkif {
>       struct task_struct      *xenblkd;
>       unsigned int            waiting_reqs;
>  
> +     /* frontend feature information */
> +     u8                      can_grant_persist:1;
> +     struct pers_gnt         *pers_gnts[BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV *
> +                                       BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     unsigned int            pers_gnt_c;
> +
>       /* statistics */
>       unsigned long           st_print;
>       int                     st_rd_req;
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c 
> b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> index 4f66171..dc58cc4 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> @@ -681,6 +681,13 @@ again:
>               goto abort;
>       }
>  
> +     err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent-grants",
> +                         "%d", 1);
> +     if (err) {
> +             xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "writing persistent capability");
> +             goto abort;
> +     }
> +
>       /* FIXME: use a typename instead */
>       err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "info", "%u",
>                           be->blkif->vbd.type |
> @@ -721,6 +728,7 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
>       struct xenbus_device *dev = be->dev;
>       unsigned long ring_ref;
>       unsigned int evtchn;
> +     u8 pers_grants;
>       char protocol[64] = "";
>       int err;
>  
> @@ -750,8 +758,17 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
>               xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "unknown fe protocol %s", protocol);
>               return -1;
>       }
> -     pr_info(DRV_PFX "ring-ref %ld, event-channel %d, protocol %d (%s)\n",
> -             ring_ref, evtchn, be->blkif->blk_protocol, protocol);
> +     err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend,
> +                         "feature-persistent-grants", "%d",
> +                         &pers_grants, NULL);
> +     if (err)
> +             pers_grants = 0;
> +
> +     be->blkif->can_grant_persist = pers_grants;
> +
> +     pr_info(DRV_PFX "ring-ref %ld, event-channel %d, protocol %d (%s) 
> persistent %d\n",
> +             ring_ref, evtchn, be->blkif->blk_protocol, protocol,
> +             pers_grants);
>  
>       /* Map the shared frame, irq etc. */
>       err = xen_blkif_map(be->blkif, ring_ref, evtchn);
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> index e4fb337..c1cc5fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ struct blk_shadow {
>       struct blkif_request req;
>       struct request *request;
>       unsigned long frame[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct gnt_list *grants_used[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +};
> +
> +struct gnt_list {
> +     grant_ref_t gref;
> +     unsigned long frame;
> +     struct gnt_list *tail;
>  };
>  
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(blkfront_mutex);
> @@ -97,11 +104,14 @@ struct blkfront_info
>       struct work_struct work;
>       struct gnttab_free_callback callback;
>       struct blk_shadow shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE];
> +     struct gnt_list *persistent_grants_front;
> +     unsigned int persistent_grants_c;
>       unsigned long shadow_free;
>       unsigned int feature_flush;
>       unsigned int flush_op;
>       unsigned int feature_discard:1;
>       unsigned int feature_secdiscard:1;
> +     unsigned int feature_persistent:1;
>       unsigned int discard_granularity;
>       unsigned int discard_alignment;
>       int is_ready;
> @@ -286,22 +296,37 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
>       struct blkif_request *ring_req;
>       unsigned long id;
>       unsigned int fsect, lsect;
> -     int i, ref;
> +     int i, ref, use_pers_gnts, new_pers_gnts;
>       grant_ref_t gref_head;
> +     struct bio_vec *bvecs[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +     struct bio_vec *bvec;
> +     struct req_iterator iter;
> +     char *bvec_data;
> +     void *shared_data;
> +     unsigned long flags;
> +     struct page *shared_page;
> +     struct gnt_list *gnt_list_entry;
>       struct scatterlist *sg;
>  
>       if (unlikely(info->connected != BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED))
>               return 1;
>  
> -     if (gnttab_alloc_grant_references(
> -             BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, &gref_head) < 0) {
> -             gnttab_request_free_callback(
> -                     &info->callback,
> -                     blkif_restart_queue_callback,
> -                     info,
> -                     BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
> -             return 1;
> +     use_pers_gnts = info->feature_persistent;
> +
> +     if (info->persistent_grants_c < BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST) {
> +             new_pers_gnts = 1;
> +             if (gnttab_alloc_grant_references(
> +                         BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, &gref_head) < 0) {
> +                     gnttab_request_free_callback(
> +                             &info->callback,
> +                             blkif_restart_queue_callback,
> +                             info,
> +                             BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
> +                     return 1;
> +             }
>       } else
> +             new_pers_gnts = 0;
>  
>       /* Fill out a communications ring structure. */
>       ring_req = RING_GET_REQUEST(&info->ring, info->ring.req_prod_pvt);
> @@ -341,20 +366,66 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
>                      BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
>  
>               for_each_sg(info->sg, sg, ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments, i) {
> -                     buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(sg_page(sg)));
>                       fsect = sg->offset >> 9;
>                       lsect = fsect + (sg->length >> 9) - 1;
> -                     /* install a grant reference. */
> -                     ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&gref_head);
> -                     BUG_ON(ref == -ENOSPC);
>  
> -                     gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(
> +                     if (use_pers_gnts && info->persistent_grants_c) {
> +                             gnt_list_entry = info->persistent_grants_front;
> +
> +                             info->persistent_grants_front =
> +                                     info->persistent_grants_front->tail;
> +                             ref = gnt_list_entry->gref;
> +                             buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(gnt_list_entry->frame);
> +                             info->persistent_grants_c--;
> +                     } else {
> +                             ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&gref_head);
> +                             BUG_ON(ref == -ENOSPC);
> +
> +                             if (use_pers_gnts) {
> +                                     gnt_list_entry =
> +                                             kmalloc(sizeof(struct gnt_list),
> +                                                              GFP_ATOMIC);
> +                                     if (!gnt_list_entry)
> +                                             return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +                                     shared_page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
> +                                     if (!shared_page)
> +                                             return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +                                     gnt_list_entry->frame =
> +                                             page_to_pfn(shared_page);
> +                                     gnt_list_entry->gref = ref;
> +                             } else
> +                                     shared_page = sg_page(sg);
> +
> +                             buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(
> +                                                             shared_page));
> +                             gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(
>                                       ref,
>                                       info->xbdev->otherend_id,
>                                       buffer_mfn,
> -                                     rq_data_dir(req));
> +                                     !use_pers_gnts && rq_data_dir(req));
> +                     }
> +
> +                     if (use_pers_gnts)
> +                             info->shadow[id].grants_used[i] =
> +                                     gnt_list_entry;
> +
> +                     if (use_pers_gnts && rq_data_dir(req)) {
> +                             shared_data = kmap_atomic(
> +                                     pfn_to_page(gnt_list_entry->frame));
> +                             bvec_data = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
> +
> +                             memcpy(shared_data + sg->offset,
> +                                    bvec_data   + sg->offset,
> +                                    sg->length);
> +
> +                             kunmap_atomic(bvec_data);
> +                             kunmap_atomic(shared_data);
> +                     }
>  
>                       info->shadow[id].frame[i] = mfn_to_pfn(buffer_mfn);
> +
>                       ring_req->u.rw.seg[i] =
>                                       (struct blkif_request_segment) {
>                                               .gref       = ref,
> @@ -368,7 +439,8 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
>       /* Keep a private copy so we can reissue requests when recovering. */
>       info->shadow[id].req = *ring_req;
>  
> -     gnttab_free_grant_references(gref_head);
> +     if (new_pers_gnts)
> +             gnttab_free_grant_references(gref_head);
>  
>       return 0;
>  }
> @@ -480,12 +552,13 @@ static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, u16 
> sector_size)
>  static void xlvbd_flush(struct blkfront_info *info)
>  {
>       blk_queue_flush(info->rq, info->feature_flush);
> -     printk(KERN_INFO "blkfront: %s: %s: %s\n",
> +     printk(KERN_INFO "blkfront: %s: %s: %s. Persistent=%d\n",
>              info->gd->disk_name,
>              info->flush_op == BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER ?
>               "barrier" : (info->flush_op == BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE ?
>               "flush diskcache" : "barrier or flush"),
> -            info->feature_flush ? "enabled" : "disabled");
> +            info->feature_flush ? "enabled" : "disabled",
> +         info->feature_persistent);
>  }
>  
>  static int xen_translate_vdev(int vdevice, int *minor, unsigned int *offset)
> @@ -707,6 +780,8 @@ static void blkif_restart_queue(struct work_struct *work)
>  
>  static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
>  {
> +     struct gnt_list *pers_gnt;
> +
>       /* Prevent new requests being issued until we fix things up. */
>       spin_lock_irq(&info->io_lock);
>       info->connected = suspend ?
> @@ -714,6 +789,15 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int 
> suspend)
>       /* No more blkif_request(). */
>       if (info->rq)
>               blk_stop_queue(info->rq);
> +
> +     /* Remove all persistent grants */
> +     while (info->persistent_grants_front) {
> +             pers_gnt = info->persistent_grants_front;
> +             info->persistent_grants_front = pers_gnt->tail;
> +             gnttab_end_foreign_access(pers_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
> +             kfree(pers_gnt);
> +     }
> +
>       /* No more gnttab callback work. */
>       gnttab_cancel_free_callback(&info->callback);
>       spin_unlock_irq(&info->io_lock);
> @@ -734,13 +818,44 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int 
> suspend)
>  
>  }
>  
> -static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s)
> +static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s, struct blkfront_info 
> *info,
> +                          struct blkif_response *bret)
>  {
>       int i;
> -     /* Do not let BLKIF_OP_DISCARD as nr_segment is in the same place
> -      * flag. */
> -     for (i = 0; i < s->req.u.rw.nr_segments; i++)
> -             gnttab_end_foreign_access(s->req.u.rw.seg[i].gref, 0, 0UL);
> +     struct gnt_list *new_gnt_list_entry;
> +     struct bio_vec *bvec;
> +     struct req_iterator iter;
> +     unsigned long flags;
> +     char *bvec_data;
> +     void *shared_data;
> +
> +     i = 0;
> +     if (info->feature_persistent == 0) {
> +             /* Do not let BLKIF_OP_DISCARD as nr_segment is in the same
> +              * place flag. */
> +             for (i = 0; i < s->req.u.rw.nr_segments; i++)
> +                     gnttab_end_foreign_access(s->req.u.rw.seg[i].gref,
> +                                               0, 0UL);
> +             return;
> +     }
> +
> +     if (bret->operation == BLKIF_OP_READ)
> +             rq_for_each_segment(bvec, s->request, iter) {
> +                     shared_data = kmap_atomic
> +                             (pfn_to_page(s->grants_used[i++]->frame));
> +                     bvec_data = bvec_kmap_irq(bvec, &flags);
> +                     memcpy(bvec_data, shared_data + bvec->bv_offset,
> +                            bvec->bv_len);
> +                     bvec_kunmap_irq(bvec_data, &flags);
> +                     kunmap_atomic(shared_data);
> +             }
> +     /* Add the persistent grant into the list of free grants */
> +     for (i = 0; i < s->req.u.rw.nr_segments; i++) {
> +             new_gnt_list_entry = s->grants_used[i];
> +             new_gnt_list_entry->tail = info->persistent_grants_front;
> +             info->persistent_grants_front = new_gnt_list_entry;
> +             info->persistent_grants_c++;
> +     }
>  }
>  
>  static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
> @@ -783,7 +898,7 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>               req  = info->shadow[id].request;
>  
>               if (bret->operation != BLKIF_OP_DISCARD)
> -                     blkif_completion(&info->shadow[id]);
> +                     blkif_completion(&info->shadow[id], info, bret);
>  
>               if (add_id_to_freelist(info, id)) {
>                       WARN(1, "%s: response to %s (id %ld) couldn't be 
> recycled!\n",
> @@ -943,6 +1058,12 @@ again:
>               message = "writing protocol";
>               goto abort_transaction;
>       }
> +     err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
> +                         "feature-persistent-grants", "%d", 1);
> +     if (err) {
> +             message = "Writing persistent grants front feature";
> +             goto abort_transaction;
> +     }
>  
>       err = xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 0);
>       if (err) {
> @@ -1030,6 +1151,7 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
>       spin_lock_init(&info->io_lock);
>       info->xbdev = dev;
>       info->vdevice = vdevice;
> +     info->persistent_grants_c = 0;
>       info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_DISCONNECTED;
>       INIT_WORK(&info->work, blkif_restart_queue);
>  
> @@ -1094,6 +1216,7 @@ static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
>                                       req->u.rw.seg[j].gref,
>                                       info->xbdev->otherend_id,
>                                       
> pfn_to_mfn(info->shadow[req->u.rw.id].frame[j]),
> +                                     !info->feature_persistent &&
>                                       
> rq_data_dir(info->shadow[req->u.rw.id].request));
>               }
>               info->shadow[req->u.rw.id].req = *req;
> @@ -1226,7 +1349,7 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
>       unsigned long sector_size;
>       unsigned int binfo;
>       int err;
> -     int barrier, flush, discard;
> +     int barrier, flush, discard, persistent;
>  
>       switch (info->connected) {
>       case BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED:
> @@ -1297,6 +1420,19 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info 
> *info)
>               info->flush_op = BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE;
>       }
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Are we dealing with an old blkback that will unmap
> +      * all grefs?
> +      */
> +     err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
> +                         "feature-persistent-grants", "%d", &persistent,
> +                         NULL);
> +
> +     if (err)
> +             info->feature_persistent = 0;
> +     else
> +             info->feature_persistent = persistent;
> +
>       err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
>                           "feature-discard", "%d", &discard,
>                           NULL);
> diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h 
> b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
> index ee338bf..cd267a9b 100644
> --- a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
> +++ b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
> @@ -109,6 +109,15 @@ typedef uint64_t blkif_sector_t;
>   */
>  #define BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST 11
>  
> +/*
> + * Maximum number of persistent grants that can be mapped by Dom0 for each
> + * interface. This is set to be the size of the ring, as this is a limit on
> + * the number of requests that can be inflight at any one time. 256 imposes
> + * an overhead of 11MB of mapped kernel space per interface.
> + */
> +#define BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV 256
> +
> +
>  struct blkif_request_rw {
>       uint8_t        nr_segments;  /* number of segments                   */
>       blkif_vdev_t   handle;       /* only for read/write requests         */
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5

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