Re: [PATCH] xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 22.09.20 09:01, SeongJae Park wrote:
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Persistent grants feature provides high scalability.  On some small
> systems, however, it could incur data copy overhead[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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback        |  8 ++++++++
>   drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c              | 17 ++++++++++++++---
>   2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback 
> b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
> index ecb7942ff146..0c42285c75ee 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
> @@ -35,3 +35,11 @@ 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> +                Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not.
> +                The default is 1 (enable).
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c 
> b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> index b9aa5d1ac10b..9c03d70469f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
> @@ -879,6 +879,12 @@ static void reclaim_memory(struct xenbus_device *dev)
>   
>   /* ** Connection ** */
>   
> +/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */
> +static unsigned int feature_persistent = 1;
Use bool, please.

> +module_param_named(feature_persistent, feature_persistent, int, 0644);
module_param()

> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent,
> +               "Enables the persistent grants feature");
> +
>   /*
>    * Write the physical details regarding the block device to the store, and
>    * switch to Connected state.
> @@ -906,7 +912,8 @@ 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",
> +                       feature_persistent ? 1 : 0);
Using bool above should allow to just use the value of
feature_persistent here.


Juergen