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In some use cases[1], the backend is created while the frontend doesn't
support the persistent grants feature, but later the frontend can be
changed to support the feature and reconnect. In the past, 'blkback'
enabled the persistent grants feature since it unconditionally checked
if frontend supports the persistent grants feature for every connect
('connect_ring()') and decided whether it should use persistent grans or
not.
However, commit aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for
disabling of persistent grants") has mistakenly changed the behavior.
It made the frontend feature support check to not be repeated once it
shown the 'feature_persistent' as 'false', or the frontend doesn't
support persistent grants.
Similar behavioral change has made on 'blkfront' by commit 74a852479c68
("xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants").
This commit changes the behavior of the parameter to make effect for
every connect, so that the previous behavior of 'blkfront' can be
restored.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/CAJwUmVB6H3iTs-C+U=v-pwJB7-_ZRHPxHzKRJZ22xEPW7z8a=g@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 74a852479c68 ("xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715225108.193398-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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and feature_persistent
SeongJae is currently listed as a contact point for some blk{back,front}
features, but he will not work for XEN for a while. This commit
therefore updates the contact point to his colleague, Maximilian, who is
understanding the context and actively working with the features now.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420072734.1692-1-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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This commit updates SeongJae's email addresses in documents to his
preferred one.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210917122222.3109-1-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Commit 14e710fe7897 ("xen-blkfront: rename indirect descriptor
parameter") changed the name of the module parameter for the maximum
amount of segments in indirect requests but missed updating the
document. This commit updates the document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923061841.20531-4-sjpark@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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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@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923061841.20531-3-sjpark@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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indirect segments.
The max module parameter (by default 32) is the maximum number of
segments that the frontend will negotiate with the backend for indirect
descriptors. Higher value means more potential throughput but more
memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend and its
default backend value.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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