Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront resource use

2017-02-07 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 07.02.17 at 16:24, wrote: > Or maybe we should just disable persistent grants by default, by setting > xen_blkif_max_pgrants = 0. This feature doesn't scale well, and interacts > badly > with other things (like indirect descriptors). The amount of code required to > maintain this feature i

Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront resource use

2017-02-07 Thread Roger Pau Monne
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 07:13:57AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 07.02.17 at 14:59, wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:53:58AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> Interestingly I've found > >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/N6Q171xkIkM > >> when looking around - is there

Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront resource use

2017-02-07 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 07.02.17 at 14:59, wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:53:58AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Interestingly I've found >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/N6Q171xkIkM >> when looking around - is there a reason this or something similar >> never made it into the driver? W

Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront resource use

2017-02-07 Thread Roger Pau Monne
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:53:58AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > Konrad, Roger, > > we've recently had a report of stuck I/O (with slightly over a hundred > frontend instances in a single guest), which turned out to be a simple > lack of configured grants on the system. This raises two questions: >