Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from per-queue persistent grants

From	Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from per-queue persistent grants
Date	2017-06-28 17:50 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:57:28PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> This patch partially reverts 3df0e50 ("xen/blkfront: pseudo support for
> multi hardware queues/rings"). The xen-blkfront queue/ring might hang due
> to grants allocation failure in the situation when gnttab_free_head is
> almost empty while many persistent grants are reserved for this queue/ring.
> 
> As persistent grants management was per-queue since 73716df ("xen/blkfront:
> make persistent grants pool per-queue"), we should always allocate from
> persistent grants first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Thanks.

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[PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from per-queue persistent grants Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com> - 2017-06-28 15:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/blkfront: always allocate grants first from  per-queue persistent grants Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> - 2017-06-28 17:50 +0200

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