Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding grants

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed Jul 31 2013 - 07:27:28 EST


"Roger Pau MonnÃ" <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 08/07/13 15:03, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> The following patches prevent blkfront from hoarding all grants in
>the
>> system by allowing blkfront to request blkback to unmap certain
>grants
>> so they can be freed by blkfront. This is done periodically by
>> blkfront, unmapping a certain amount of unused persistent grants.
>>
>> This series also includes a bug fix for the grant table free callback
>
>> implementation.
>
>Hello,
>
>IMHO I think 1 should go in (at the end it's a bugfix) and backported
>to
>stable. 2 and 4 (second version) can probably also go in?
>
>Roger.

Can you repost the patch series please with some of the comments addressed in the commit description please. Note that the patch series It says RFC on them :-)
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