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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] xen-blkback: support dynamic unbind/bind



On 12.12.19 12:46, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:29:56PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
By simply re-attaching to shared rings during connect_ring() rather than
assuming they are freshly allocated (i.e assuming the counters are zero)
it is possible for vbd instances to be unbound and re-bound from and to
(respectively) a running guest.

This has been tested by running:

while true;
   do fio --name=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=16 \
   --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --direct=1 --size=1G --verify=crc32;
   done

in a PV guest whilst running:

while true;
   do echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >unbind;
   echo unbound;
   sleep 5;
   echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >bind;
   echo bound;
   sleep 3;
   done

in dom0 from /sys/bus/xen-backend/drivers/vbd to continuously unbind and
re-bind its system disk image.

This is a highly useful feature for a backend module as it allows it to be
unloaded and re-loaded (i.e. updated) without requiring domUs to be halted.
This was also tested by running:

while true;
   do echo vbd-$DOMID-$VBD >unbind;
   echo unbound;
   sleep 5;
   rmmod xen-blkback;
   echo unloaded;
   sleep 1;
   modprobe xen-blkback;
   echo bound;
   cd $(pwd);
   sleep 3;
   done

in dom0 whilst running the same loop as above in the (single) PV guest.

Some (less stressful) testing has also been done using a Windows HVM guest
with the latest 9.0 PV drivers installed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Juergen: I guess you will also pick this series and merge it from the
Xen tree instead of the block one?

Yes.


Juergen

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