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

2013-07-31 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
"Roger Pau Monné" 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

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

2013-07-31 Thread Roger Pau Monné
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 u

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

2013-07-11 Thread David Vrabel
On 08/07/13 14:03, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > This series also includes a bug fix for the grant table free callback > implementation. I think this should have been split out from this series. > According to my tests, this series don't introduce any performance > regressions, results can be seen a

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

2013-07-08 Thread Roger Pau Monne
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 include