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authorSeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>2020-09-23 08:18:40 +0200
committerBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2020-10-21 07:15:15 -0500
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xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants
Persistent grants feature provides high scalability. On some small systems, however, it could incur data copy overheads[1] and thus it is required to be disabled. It can be disabled from blkback side using a module parameter, 'feature_persistent'. But, it is impossible from blkfront side. For the reason, this commit adds a blkfront module parameter for disabling of the feature. [1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923061841.20531-3-sjpark@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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@@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ Description:
is 32 - higher value means more potential throughput but more
memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend
and its default backend value.
+
+What: /sys/module/xen_blkfront/parameters/feature_persistent
+Date: September 2020
+KernelVersion: 5.10
+Contact: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
+Description:
+ Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not. Note
+ that this option only takes effect on newly created frontends.
+ The default is Y (enable).