[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Persistent grant maps for xen blk drivers
Ah yes, you're right - rings can accomodate 64 requests. ijc, and myself got muddled. It also explains the comment in my summary that we only use the first 60-ish persistent grants! With multipage rings, this will probably become a function, rather than a constant. Does that sound sensible? On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 13:03 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 19.09.12 at 12:51, Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > +/* > > + * Maximum number of persistent grants that can be mapped by Dom0 for each > > + * interface. This is set to be the size of the ring, as this is a limit on > > + * the number of requests that can be inflight at any one time. 256 imposes > > + * an overhead of 11MB of mapped kernel space per interface. > > + */ > > +#define BLKIF_MAX_PERS_REQUESTS_PER_DEV 256 > > How can this be a fixed number, especially in the context of ring > size extensions? Iirc, single page rings can accommodate 64 > requests, so I'd guess the number above was observed with a > 4-page (order 2) ring... > > Jan > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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