blkif: add indirect descriptors interface to public headers

Indirect descriptors introduce a new block operation
(BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) that passes grant references instead of segments
in the request. This grant references are filled with arrays of
blkif_request_segment_aligned, this way we can send more segments in a
request.

This interface is already implemented in Linux >= 3.11.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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Roger Pau Monné authored and Jan Beulich committed 2013-12-03 12:33:58 +01:00
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@@ -467,6 +467,30 @@
*/
#define BLKIF_OP_DISCARD 5
/*
* Recognized if "feature-max-indirect-segments" in present in the backend
* xenbus info. The "feature-max-indirect-segments" node contains the maximum
* number of segments allowed by the backend per request. If the node is
* present, the frontend might use blkif_request_indirect structs in order to
* issue requests with more than BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST (11). The
* maximum number of indirect segments is fixed by the backend, but the
* frontend can issue requests with any number of indirect segments as long as
* it's less than the number provided by the backend. The indirect_grefs field
* in blkif_request_indirect should be filled by the frontend with the
* grant references of the pages that are holding the indirect segments.
* This pages are filled with an array of blkif_request_segment_aligned
* that hold the information about the segments. The number of indirect
* pages to use is determined by the maximum number of segments
* an indirect request contains. Every indirect page can contain a maximum
* of 512 segments (PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(blkif_request_segment_aligned)),
* so to calculate the number of indirect pages to use we have to do
* ceil(indirect_segments/512).
*
* If a backend does not recognize BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT, it should *not*
* create the "feature-max-indirect-segments" node!
*/
#define BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT 6
/*
* Maximum scatter/gather segments per request.
* This is carefully chosen so that sizeof(blkif_ring_t) <= PAGE_SIZE.
@@ -474,6 +498,11 @@
*/
#define BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST 11
/*
* Maximum number of indirect pages to use per request.
*/
#define BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST 8
/*
* NB. first_sect and last_sect in blkif_request_segment, as well as
* sector_number in blkif_request, are always expressed in 512-byte units.
@@ -517,6 +546,28 @@ struct blkif_request_discard {
};
typedef struct blkif_request_discard blkif_request_discard_t;
struct blkif_request_indirect {
uint8_t operation; /* BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT */
uint8_t indirect_op; /* BLKIF_OP_{READ/WRITE} */
uint16_t nr_segments; /* number of segments */
uint64_t id; /* private guest value, echoed in resp */
blkif_sector_t sector_number;/* start sector idx on disk (r/w only) */
blkif_vdev_t handle; /* same as for read/write requests */
grant_ref_t indirect_grefs[BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST];
#ifdef __i386__
uint64_t pad; /* Make it 64 byte aligned on i386 */
#endif
};
typedef struct blkif_request_indirect blkif_request_indirect_t;
struct blkif_request_segment_aligned {
grant_ref_t gref; /* reference to I/O buffer frame */
/* @first_sect: first sector in frame to transfer (inclusive). */
/* @last_sect: last sector in frame to transfer (inclusive). */
uint8_t first_sect, last_sect;
uint16_t _pad; /* padding to make it 8 bytes, so it's cache-aligned */
};
struct blkif_response {
uint64_t id; /* copied from request */
uint8_t operation; /* copied from request */
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