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| author | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2018-08-13 16:01:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2018-08-27 12:12:03 -0400 |
| commit | 973e5405f2f67ddbb2bf07b3ffc71908a37fea8e (patch) | |
| tree | 291850d68c314417cb2b074fddf9aa5171126a7a /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | b86d865cb1cae1e61527ea0b8977078bbf694328 (diff) | |
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xen/blkback: don't keep persistent grants too long
Persistent grants are allocated until a threshold per ring is being
reached. Those grants won't be freed until the ring is being destroyed
meaning there will be resources kept busy which might no longer be
used.
Instead of freeing only persistent grants until the threshold is
reached add a timestamp and remove all persistent grants not having
been in use for a minute.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback index 8bb43b66eb55..4e7babb3ba1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback @@ -15,3 +15,13 @@ Description: blkback. If the frontend tries to use more than max_persistent_grants, the LRU kicks in and starts removing 5% of max_persistent_grants every 100ms. + +What: /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/persistent_grant_unused_seconds +Date: August 2018 +KernelVersion: 4.19 +Contact: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> +Description: + How long a persistent grant is allowed to remain + allocated without being in use. The time is in + seconds, 0 means indefinitely long. + The default is 60 seconds. |