Bob Liu 73716df7da xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
Make persistent grants per-queue/ring instead of per-device, so that we can
drop the 'dev_lock' and get better scalability.

Test was done based on null_blk driver:
dom0: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB "modprobe null_blk"
domu: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB

[test]
rw=read
direct=1
ioengine=libaio
bs=4k
time_based
runtime=30
filename=/dev/xvdb
numjobs=16
iodepth=64
iodepth_batch=64
iodepth_batch_complete=64
group_reporting

Queues:			  1 	   4 	  	  8 	 	 16
Iops orig(k):		810 	1064 		780 		700
Iops patched(k):	810     1230(~20%)	1024(~20%)	850(~20%)

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04 12:21:03 -05:00
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