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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com
Cc: lidongyang@novell.com, joe.jin@oracle.com,
	Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, lersek@redhat.com, jbeulich@suse.com
Subject: [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-3.2 - blkback and blkfront patches for 3.2
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:21:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013152157.GA9627@phenom.oracle.com> (raw)

Hey Jens,

Please pull the following git tree in your 3.2 drivers tree:

 git pull git://oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.2

which has a couple of bug fixes and two new features for Xen blkfront
and blkback.

The bug-fixes are the normal variety - on error path we did not the proper
thing (leak memory), on entry to some functions we did not check whether we
should just ignore the request (b/c we might not support it), and we also
forgot to increment the write sector count.

There are also two new features:
 - discard support, aka trim/unmap. We export from the backend the
   discard alignment, granularity and do normal REQ_DISCARD. We do have
   patches for the REQ_SECURE type - but not the hardware to test it so
   holding on the secure discard until I get my hands on it.

 - barrier (pre 2.6.38 kernel) support. The backend supports the FLUSH
   type operation but to support older kernels that did barriers we have
   implemented a drain technique that counts all of the bio's in flight and
   waits until they are completed and then sends a FLUSH.

In regards to testing, I've been testing this on Intel SSD, Western Digital
SSD. But sadly all of them export the block size as 512 - is there a good
SSD or disk where it would export it as something more than 512?

And here is the credit list:

Jan Beulich (1):
      xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()

Joe Jin (1):
      xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (4):
      xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
      xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
      xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
      xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.

Laszlo Ersek (1):
      xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path

Li Dongyang (4):
      xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
      xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
      xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
      xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response

The diffstat:

 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |  130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |  100 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  |   80 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        |  123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h    |   36 ++++++++++
 5 files changed, 403 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13 15:21 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-10-14 16:59 ` [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-3.2 - blkback and blkfront patches for 3.2 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-21 15:09 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-21 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 15:35   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
     [not found]     ` <CAKH3R4_yAhmRE3Lg73gE3iKD_Dcp0u_hr8rHekSyRJVQ02KbGw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-22 15:54       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
     [not found]         ` <CAKH3R4_nMX6MTpwfy92FGRu+1bO1ck4_0Qd812Tnu+hS+v0qdA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-25  2:37           ` Li Dongyang

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