Re: [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-4.5

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:33:29PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Hey Jens,

ping ?

Thanks.
> 
> Please pull in your "for-4.5/drivers" branch the following branch:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-4.5
> 
> which is based on "bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary"
> (the tip of your branch as of today)
> 
> The pull is based on converting the backend driver into an multiqueue
> driver and exposing more than one queue to the frontend. As such we had
> to modify the frontend and also fix a bunch of bugs around this.
> 
> The original work is based on Arianna Avanzini's work as an OPW intern.
> Bob took over the work and had been massaging it for quite some time.
> 
> Also included are are features to 64KB page support for ARM and various
> bug-fixes.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> P.S.
> The branch is fresh in the git tree, but that is because I had rebased it
> on your tree today (and tested it naturally). It had been simmering for
> quite a while.
> 
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |  391 +++++++------
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |   86 +--
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  |  416 +++++++++-----
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        | 1061 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h    |   48 ++
>  5 files changed, 1292 insertions(+), 710 deletions(-)
> 
> Bob Liu (12):
>       xen/blkif: document blkif multi-queue/ring extension
>       xen/blkfront: separate per ring information out of device info
>       xen/blkfront: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
>       xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
>       xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
>       xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of ->xbdev.
>       xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
>       xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
>       xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
>       xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
>       xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
>       xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
> 
> Jiri Kosina (1):
>       xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
> 
> Julien Grall (2):
>       xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
>       xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
> 
> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (5):
>       xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
>       xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
>       xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
>       xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
>       xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
> 
> Peng Fan (1):
>       xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
>