On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:24:15 +0200 Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]> wrote:

> Assume that reads and writes to the variable will be atomic. The worse
> that could happen is that one of the LRU intervals is not calculated
> properly if a partially written value is read, but that would only be
> a transient issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
> ---
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
> Cc: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: J. Roeleveld <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jürgen Groß <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback | 10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c                |  9 ++++++---
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback 
> b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
> index ecb7942ff146..776f25d335ca 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback
> @@ -35,3 +35,13 @@ Description:
>                  controls the duration in milliseconds that blkback will not
>                  cache any page not backed by a grant mapping.
>                  The default is 10ms.
> +
> +What:           /sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/lru_internval
> +Date:           October 2020
> +KernelVersion:  5.10
> +Contact:        Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
> +Description:
> +                The LRU mechanism to clean the lists of persistent grants 
> needs
> +                to be executed periodically. This parameter controls the time
> +                interval between consecutive executions of the purge 
> mechanism
> +                is set in ms.

I think noticing the default value (100ms) here would be better.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park

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