Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen: add helpers for caching grant mapping pages

[boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com]

On 12/7/20 8:30 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Instead of having similar helpers in multiple backend drivers use
> common helpers for caching pages allocated via gnttab_alloc_pages().
>
> Make use of those helpers in blkback and scsiback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovksy@oracle.com>


> +
> +void gnttab_page_cache_shrink(struct gnttab_page_cache *cache, unsigned int num)
> +{
> +	struct page *page[10];
> +	unsigned int i = 0;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&cache->lock, flags);
> +
> +	while (cache->num_pages > num) {
> +		page[i] = list_first_entry(&cache->pages, struct page, lru);
> +		list_del(&page[i]->lru);
> +		cache->num_pages--;
> +		if (++i == ARRAY_SIZE(page)) {
> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cache->lock, flags);
> +			gnttab_free_pages(i, page);
> +			i = 0;
> +			spin_lock_irqsave(&cache->lock, flags);
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cache->lock, flags);
> +
> +	if (i != 0)
> +		gnttab_free_pages(i, page);
> +}


How about splitting cache->pages list into two lists (one @num long and the other holding the rest) and then batching gntab_free_pages() from that first list? Then you won't have to deal with locking.


In fact, I am not even sure batching gains us much, I'd consider going one-by-one.


-boris