Allow the block backend to work under an HVM domain (by default it was only
working in PV), and some fixes and an performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
xen-blkfront: make blkif_io_lock spinlock per-device
This patch moves the global blkif_io_lock to the per-device structure. The
spinlock seems to exists for two reasons: to disable IRQs when in the interrupt
handlers for blkfront, and to protect the blkfront VBDs when a detachment is
requested.
Having a global blkif_io_lock doesn't make sense given the use case, and it
drastically hinders performance due to contention. All VBDs with pending IOs
have to take the lock in order to get work done, which serializes everything
pretty badly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <snoonan@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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