Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] xen/blk: persistent grant rework

2018-08-27 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:52:23PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 17/08/18 17:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 04:01:09PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> Persistent grants are used in the Xen's blkfront/blkback drivers to > >> avoid mapping/unmapping of I/O buffers in the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] xen/blk: persistent grant rework

2018-08-24 Thread Juergen Gross
On 17/08/18 17:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 04:01:09PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: >> Persistent grants are used in the Xen's blkfront/blkback drivers to >> avoid mapping/unmapping of I/O buffers in the backend for each I/O. >> >> While this speeds up processing quite a bit

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] xen/blk: persistent grant rework

2018-08-17 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 04:01:09PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Persistent grants are used in the Xen's blkfront/blkback drivers to > avoid mapping/unmapping of I/O buffers in the backend for each I/O. > > While this speeds up processing quite a bit there are problems related > to persistent

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] xen/blk: persistent grant rework

2018-08-13 Thread Juergen Gross
Persistent grants are used in the Xen's blkfront/blkback drivers to avoid mapping/unmapping of I/O buffers in the backend for each I/O. While this speeds up processing quite a bit there are problems related to persistent grants in some configurations: domains with multiple block devices making