From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/4] xen-blkfront: improve aproximation of required grants per request
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:47:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DEC59B.2040501@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DEB102.7060802@citrix.com>
On 11/07/13 15:20, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 08/07/13 14:03, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> Improve the calculation of required grants to process a request by
>> using nr_phys_segments instead of always assuming a request is going
>> to use all posible segments.
>
> This isn't obviously correct to me. Why is this correct value for the
> number of pages that need to be granted?
This contains the number of scatter-gather DMA addr+len pairs, which is
basically what we put at every granted page. for_each_sg iterates over
the DMA addr+len pairs and uses a grant page for each of them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-11 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 13:03 [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding grants Roger Pau Monne
2013-07-08 13:03 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] xen-gnt: prevent adding duplicate gnt callbacks Roger Pau Monne
2013-07-11 13:17 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-07-11 16:23 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-08 13:03 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] xen-blkfront: improve aproximation of required grants per request Roger Pau Monne
2013-07-11 13:20 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-07-11 14:47 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2013-07-08 13:03 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] xen-blkfront: prevent hoarding all grants Roger Pau Monne
2013-07-11 13:32 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-07-11 14:57 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-08 13:03 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] xen-block: introduce a new request type to unmap grants Roger Pau Monne
2013-07-08 19:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-09 13:22 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2013-07-09 16:37 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-09 18:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-09 18:38 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2013-07-10 9:19 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-10 13:54 ` [Xen-devel] " Egger, Christoph
2013-07-10 14:46 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-10 14:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-11 13:48 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2013-07-11 15:12 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-11 15:26 ` David Vrabel
2013-07-11 15:48 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-12 10:12 ` David Vrabel
2013-07-11 13:35 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] xen-block: prevent blkfront for hoarding grants David Vrabel
2013-07-31 9:50 ` Roger Pau Monné
2013-07-31 11:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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