xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants

Persistent grants feature provides high scalability.  On some small
systems, however, it could incur data copy overheads[1] and thus it is
required to be disabled.  It can be disabled from blkback side using a
module parameter, 'feature_persistent'.  But, it is impossible from
blkfront side.  For the reason, this commit adds a blkfront module
parameter for disabling of the feature.

[1] https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Block_Protocol_Scalability

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkfront

@@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ Description:
                 is 32 - higher value means more potential throughput but more
                 memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend
                 and its default backend value.
+
+What:           /sys/module/xen_blkfront/parameters/feature_persistent
+Date:           September 2020
+KernelVersion:  5.10
+Contact:        SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
+Description:
+                Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not.  Note
+                that this option only takes effect on newly created frontends.
+                The default is Y (enable).

drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c

@@ -1866,8 +1866,8 @@ static int talk_to_blkback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 		message = "writing protocol";
 		goto abort_transaction;
 	}
-	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename,
-			    "feature-persistent", "%u", 1);
+	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u",
+			info->feature_persistent);
 	if (err)
 		dev_warn(&dev->dev,
 			 "writing persistent grants feature to xenbus");
@@ -1941,6 +1941,13 @@ static int negotiate_mq(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */
+static bool feature_persistent = true;
+module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent,
+		"Enables the persistent grants feature");
+
 /**
  * Entry point to this code when a new device is created.  Allocate the basic
  * structures and the ring buffer for communication with the backend, and
@@ -2007,6 +2014,8 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	info->vdevice = vdevice;
 	info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_DISCONNECTED;
 
+	info->feature_persistent = feature_persistent;
+
 	/* Front end dir is a number, which is used as the id. */
 	info->handle = simple_strtoul(strrchr(dev->nodename, '/')+1, NULL, 0);
 	dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, info);
@@ -2316,9 +2325,10 @@ static void blkfront_gather_backend_features(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	if (xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, "feature-discard", 0))
 		blkfront_setup_discard(info);
 
-	info->feature_persistent =
-		!!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend,
-				       "feature-persistent", 0);
+	if (info->feature_persistent)
+		info->feature_persistent =
+			!!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend,
+					       "feature-persistent", 0);
 
 	indirect_segments = xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend,
 					"feature-max-indirect-segments", 0);