[RESEND PATCH] xen/blkfront: increase the default value of xen_blkif_max_segments

From: Bob Liu
Date: Wed Jan 21 2015 - 02:56:48 EST


The default max-segments of indirect requests was 32, so IO operations with
bigger block size(>32*4k) would be split and make performance drop.

Nowadays backend device usually support 512k max_sectors_kb on desktop,
and usually larger on server machines connected with high-end storage system.
The default max size(128k) is not appropriate anymore, this patch increases it
to 128(128*4k=512k).

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 2236c6f..1bf2429 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ static const struct block_device_operations xlvbd_block_fops;
* by the backend driver.
*/

-static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_segments = 32;
+static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_segments = 128;
module_param_named(max, xen_blkif_max_segments, int, S_IRUGO);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(max, "Maximum amount of segments in indirect requests (default is 32)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max, "Maximum amount of segments in indirect requests (default is 128)");

#define BLK_RING_SIZE __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE)

--
1.7.10.4

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