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| author | SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> | 2020-09-23 08:18:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> | 2020-10-21 07:15:15 -0500 |
| commit | 74a852479c68e4efb3865d5436fd69ec4f819f96 (patch) | |
| tree | f563297238066c0bc69526fabd04f0ead31550fa /Documentation | |
| parent | aac8a70db24bd3916b9ddce1761e500771356b6b (diff) | |
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xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants
Persistent grants feature provides high scalability. On some small
systems, however, it could incur data copy overheads[1] and thus it is
required to be disabled. It can be disabled from blkback side using a
module parameter, 'feature_persistent'. But, it is impossible from
blkfront side. For the reason, this commit adds a blkfront module
parameter for disabling of the feature.
[1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923061841.20531-3-sjpark@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront index c0a6cb7eb314..9c31334cb2e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront @@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ Description: is 32 - higher value means more potential throughput but more memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend and its default backend value. + +What: /sys/module/xen_blkfront/parameters/feature_persistent +Date: September 2020 +KernelVersion: 5.10 +Contact: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> +Description: + Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not. Note + that this option only takes effect on newly created frontends. + The default is Y (enable). |