[PATCH RFC 00/12] xen-block: indirect descriptors

From: Roger Pau Monne
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 05:29:39 EST


This series contains the initial implementation of indirect
descriptors for Linux blkback/blkfront.

Patches 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are bug fixes and minor optimizations.

Patch 6 contains a LRU implementation for blkback that will be needed
when using indirect descriptors (since we are no longer able to map
all possible grants blkfront might use).

Patch 7 is an addition to the print stats function in blkback in order
to print information regarding persistent grant usage.

Patches 8, 9, 10 and 11 are preparatory work for indirect descriptors
implementation, mainly make blkback use dynamic memory and remove the
shared blkbk structure, so each blkback instance has it's own list of
free requests, pages, handles and so on.

Finally patch 12 contains the indirect descriptors implementation.

I've also pushed this series to the following git repository:

git://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/linux.git xen-block-indirect

Performance benefit of this series can be seen in the following graph:

http://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/plot_indirect.png

Thanks for the review, Roger.

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