Re: [PATCH] xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Thu Sep 24 2020 - 02:27:19 EST


On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:09:30 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:01:25AM +0200, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Persistent grants feature provides high scalability. On some small
> > systems, however, it could incur data copy overhead[1] and thus it is
> > required to be disabled. But, there is no option to disable it. For
> > the reason, this commit adds a module parameter for disabling of the
> > feature.
>
> Would it be better suited to have it per guest?

The latest version of this patchset[1] supports blkfront side disablement.
Could that partially solves your concern?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20200923061841.20531-1-sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx/


Thanks,
SeongJae Park