Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751934Ab3GHNFM (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:05:12 -0400 Received: from smtp.eu.citrix.com ([46.33.159.39]:44823 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335Ab3GHNFL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:05:11 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,1020,1363132800"; d="scan'208";a="6453380" From: Roger Pau Monne To: , Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding grants Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:03:23 +0200 Message-ID: <1373288607-1876-1-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 17 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. According to my tests, this series don't introduce any performance regressions, results can be seen at: http://xenbits.xen.org/people/royger/persistent_unmap/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/