From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen-blkback: support dynamic unbind/bind
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 13:17:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191209121726.GU980@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191205140123.3817-5-pdurrant@amazon.com>
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 02:01:23PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> By simply re-attaching to shared rings during connect_ring() rather than
> assuming they are freshly allocated (i.e assuming the counters are zero)
> it is possible for vbd instances to be unbound and re-bound from and to
> (respectively) a running guest.
>
> This has been tested by running:
>
> while true; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.img bs=1M count=1024; done
>
> in a PV guest whilst running:
>
> while true;
> do echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >unbind;
> echo unbound;
> sleep 5;
> echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >bind;
> echo bound;
> sleep 3;
> done
So this does unbind blkback while leaving the PV interface as
connected?
Thanks, Roger.
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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] xen-blkback: support dynamic unbind/bind
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 13:17:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191209121726.GU980@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191205140123.3817-5-pdurrant@amazon.com>
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 02:01:23PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> By simply re-attaching to shared rings during connect_ring() rather than
> assuming they are freshly allocated (i.e assuming the counters are zero)
> it is possible for vbd instances to be unbound and re-bound from and to
> (respectively) a running guest.
>
> This has been tested by running:
>
> while true; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.img bs=1M count=1024; done
>
> in a PV guest whilst running:
>
> while true;
> do echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >unbind;
> echo unbound;
> sleep 5;
> echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >bind;
> echo bound;
> sleep 3;
> done
So this does unbind blkback while leaving the PV interface as
connected?
Thanks, Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-09 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 14:01 [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] xen-blkback: support live update Paul Durrant
2019-12-05 14:01 ` Paul Durrant
2019-12-05 14:01 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xenbus: move xenbus_dev_shutdown() into frontend code Paul Durrant
2019-12-05 14:01 ` Paul Durrant
2019-12-09 11:33 ` [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 11:33 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 11:55 ` [Xen-devel] " Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 11:55 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 11:57 ` [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 11:57 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-05 14:01 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xenbus: limit when state is forced to closed Paul Durrant
2019-12-05 14:01 ` Paul Durrant
2019-12-09 11:39 ` [Xen-devel] " Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 11:39 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 11:55 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 11:55 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 12:03 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:03 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 12:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 12:19 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:19 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 13:38 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 13:38 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 14:06 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:06 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:09 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 14:09 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 14:23 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:23 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:41 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 14:41 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 14:43 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:43 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:01 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:01 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:25 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 12:25 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 12:40 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:40 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:28 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 14:28 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 14:41 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:41 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 15:13 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 15:13 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 16:26 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 16:26 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 17:17 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 17:17 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 17:23 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 17:23 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-05 14:01 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen/interface: don't discard pending work in FRONT/BACK_RING_ATTACH Paul Durrant
2019-12-05 14:01 ` Paul Durrant
2019-12-09 11:41 ` [Xen-devel] " Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 11:41 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 11:52 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 11:52 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 12:50 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:50 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 13:55 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 13:55 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 16:38 ` [Xen-devel] " Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 16:38 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-10 11:42 ` [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß
2019-12-10 11:42 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-05 14:01 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen-blkback: support dynamic unbind/bind Paul Durrant
2019-12-05 14:01 ` Paul Durrant
2019-12-09 12:17 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2019-12-09 12:17 ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-12-09 12:24 ` [Xen-devel] " Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 12:24 ` Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 13:57 ` [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 13:57 ` Jürgen Groß
2019-12-09 14:01 ` [Xen-devel] " Durrant, Paul
2019-12-09 14:01 ` Durrant, Paul
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