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[RFE] Support indirect descriptors feature #287

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cheese opened this issue May 14, 2019 · 0 comments
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[RFE] Support indirect descriptors feature #287

cheese opened this issue May 14, 2019 · 0 comments

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cheese commented May 14, 2019

Indirect descriptors[1][2] feature dramatically improves throughput on advanced block device.

Upstream Linux accepted this feature long time ago, in both blkback and blkfront. And late Linux distributions already come with xen blkfront driver that support this feature.

[1] https://xenproject.org/2013/08/07/indirect-descriptors-for-xen-pv-disks/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/544614/

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