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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2018-08-13 17:01:10 +0300
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2018-08-27 19:12:03 +0300
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xen/blkback: don't keep persistent grants too long
Persistent grants are allocated until a threshold per ring is being reached. Those grants won't be freed until the ring is being destroyed meaning there will be resources kept busy which might no longer be used. Instead of freeing only persistent grants until the threshold is reached add a timestamp and remove all persistent grants not having been in use for a minute. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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@@ -15,3 +15,13 @@ Description:
blkback. If the frontend tries to use more than
max_persistent_grants, the LRU kicks in and starts
removing 5% of max_persistent_grants every 100ms.
+
+What: /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/persistent_grant_unused_seconds
+Date: August 2018
+KernelVersion: 4.19
+Contact: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
+Description:
+ How long a persistent grant is allowed to remain
+ allocated without being in use. The time is in
+ seconds, 0 means indefinitely long.
+ The default is 60 seconds.