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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>,
	<konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <bob.liu@oracle.com>, <felipe.franciosi@citrix.com>, <axboe@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] xen, blkfront: introduce support for multiple hw queues
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:52:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F73D29.4020401@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408706404-6614-4-git-send-email-avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>

On 22/08/14 12:20, Arianna Avanzini wrote:
> This commit introduces in xen-blkfront actual support for multiple
> hardware queues. The number of available hardware queues is gathered
> from the backend via XenStore; in case the expected XenStore key
> is not available, the frontend defaults to a single I/O ring.

Can you split this into a part that reactors blkfront handle multiple
queues and the part that adds the XenStore negotiation for this?

You will also need to to add documentation for the XenStore keys to the
blkif.h header in Xen.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-22 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-22 11:20 [PATCH RFC 0/4] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback Arianna Avanzini
2014-08-22 11:20 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] xen, blkfront: add support for the multi-queue block layer API Arianna Avanzini
2014-08-22 12:25   ` David Vrabel
2014-08-22 15:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-22 15:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 23:54     ` Arianna Avanzini
2014-08-22 11:20 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] xen, blkfront: factor out flush-related checks from do_blkif_request() Arianna Avanzini
2014-08-22 12:45   ` David Vrabel
2014-08-22 11:20 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] xen, blkfront: introduce support for multiple hw queues Arianna Avanzini
2014-08-22 12:52   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-09-11 23:36     ` Arianna Avanzini
2014-09-12 10:50       ` David Vrabel
2014-08-22 11:20 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] xen, blkback: add support for multiple block rings Arianna Avanzini
2014-08-22 13:15   ` David Vrabel
2014-09-11 23:45     ` Arianna Avanzini
2014-09-12  3:13       ` Bob Liu
2014-09-12 10:24       ` David Vrabel
2014-09-15  9:23 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Multi-queue support for xen-blkfront and xen-blkback Roger Pau Monné

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