Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen-blkback: don't store dev_bus_addr

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-19T16:57:12Z

> >> And the masking with ~PAGE_MASK is not pointless in any case.
> >
> > Good point. In which might as well make the 'struct seg_buf' be an
> > simple array of unsigned int.
>
> I didn't do this because later on (when using indirect segments) I need
> a place to store the offset, since I don't have the indirect segment
> pages mapped during the whole operation, but I guess I could change that.

Ah, lets leave it then, and just do:

commit ffb1dabd1eb10c76a1e7af62f75a1aaa8d590b5a
Author: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Date: Mon Mar 18 17:49:32 2013 +0100

xen-blkback: don't store dev_bus_addr

dev_bus_addr returned in the grant ref map operation is the mfn of the
passed page, there's no need to store it in the persistent grant
entry, since we can always get it provided that we have the page.

This reduces the memory overhead of persistent grants in blkback.

While at it, rename the 'seg[i].buf' to be 'seg[i].offset' as
it makes much more sense - as we use that value in bio_add_page
which as the fourth argument expects the offset.

We hadn't used the physical address as part of this at all.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
[v1: s/buf/offset/]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index 2cf8381..dd5b2fe 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
}

struct seg_buf {
- unsigned long buf;
+ unsigned int offset;
unsigned int nsec;
};
/*
@@ -621,30 +621,21 @@ static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_request *req,
* If this is a new persistent grant
* save the handler
*/
- persistent_gnts[i]->handle = map[j].handle;
- persistent_gnts[i]->dev_bus_addr =
- map[j++].dev_bus_addr;
+ persistent_gnts[i]->handle = map[j++].handle;
}
pending_handle(pending_req, i) =
persistent_gnts[i]->handle;

if (ret)
continue;
-
- seg[i].buf = persistent_gnts[i]->dev_bus_addr |
- (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
} else {
- pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[j].handle;
+ pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[j++].handle;
bitmap_set(pending_req->unmap_seg, i, 1);

- if (ret) {
- j++;
+ if (ret)
continue;
- }
-
- seg[i].buf = map[j++].dev_bus_addr |
- (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
}
+ seg[i].offset = (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
}
return ret;
}
@@ -971,7 +962,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
(bio_add_page(bio,
pages[i],
seg[i].nsec << 9,
- seg[i].buf & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)) {
+ seg[i].offset) == 0)) {

bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nseg-i);
if (unlikely(bio == NULL))
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index da78346..60103e2 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ struct persistent_gnt {
struct page *page;
grant_ref_t gnt;
grant_handle_t handle;
- uint64_t dev_bus_addr;
struct rb_node node;
};