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From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Add multi-page shared ring support to xen-blkfront/back
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:44:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263318297-18527-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> (raw)


These patches add support for multi-page shared rings to xen-blkfront/back.
Shared rings must always be a power of 2 in size and so the size is controlled
by the new 'max_ring_page_order' module parameter of xen-blkback. This defaults
to 0 so operationally there should be no difference with these patches in place.
The maximum value of 'max_ring_page_order' is currently limited to 2
(i.e. 4 pages).
xen-blkfront will always use the largest shared ring size supported by the back
end. To override this and continue to use a single page ring, as before, set the
'allow_multi_page_ring' module parameter to 0.

             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-12 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-12 17:44 Paul Durrant [this message]
2010-01-12 17:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add multi-page ring support to xen-blkback Paul Durrant
2010-01-12 17:44   ` [PATCH 2/2] Add multi-page ring support to xen-blkfront Paul Durrant
2010-01-12 17:51 ` Add multi-page shared ring support to xen-blkfront/back Paul Durrant
2010-01-12 20:58   ` Add multi-page shared ring support toxen-blkfront/back James Harper
2010-01-12 21:22     ` Daniel Stodden
2010-01-13  6:03       ` James Harper
2010-01-12 23:52   ` Add multi-page shared ring support to xen-blkfront/back Dan Magenheimer
2011-08-03 18:17   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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