xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses

Handling of multiple concurrent Xenstore accesses through xenbus driver
either from the kernel or user land is rather lame today: xenbus is
capable to have one access active only at one point of time.

Rewrite xenbus to handle multiple requests concurrently by making use
of the request id of the Xenstore protocol. This requires to:

- Instead of blocking inside xb_read() when trying to read data from
  the xenstore ring buffer do so only in the main loop of
  xenbus_thread().

- Instead of doing writes to the xenstore ring buffer in the context of
  the caller just queue the request and do the write in the dedicated
  xenbus thread.

- Instead of just forwarding the request id specified by the caller of
  xenbus to xenstore use a xenbus internal unique request id. This will
  allow multiple outstanding requests.

- Modify the locking scheme in order to allow multiple requests being
  active in parallel.

- Instead of waiting for the reply of a user's xenstore request after
  writing the request to the xenstore ring buffer return directly to
  the caller and do the waiting in the read path.

Additionally signal handling was optimized by avoiding waking up the
xenbus thread or sending an event to Xenstore in case the addressed
entity is known to be running already.

As a result communication with Xenstore is sped up by a factor of up
to 5: depending on the request type (read or write) and the amount of
data transferred the gain was at least 20% (small reads) and went up to
a factor of 5 for large writes.

In the end some more rough edges of xenbus have been smoothed:

- Handling of memory shortage when reading from xenstore ring buffer in
  the xenbus driver was not optimal: it was busy looping and issuing a
  warning in each loop.

- In case of xenstore not running in dom0 but in a stubdom we end up
  with two xenbus threads running as the initialization of xenbus in
  dom0 expecting a local xenstored will be redone later when connecting
  to the xenstore domain. Up to now this was no problem as locking
  would prevent the two xenbus threads interfering with each other, but
  this was just a waste of kernel resources.

- An out of memory situation while writing to or reading from the
  xenstore ring buffer no longer will lead to a possible loss of
  synchronization with xenstore.

- The user read and write part are now interruptible by signals.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus.h b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus.h
index 51995276f549..149c5e7efc89 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus.h
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus.h
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
 #ifndef _XENBUS_XENBUS_H
 #define _XENBUS_XENBUS_H
 
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <xen/xenbus.h>
+
 #define XEN_BUS_ID_SIZE			20
 
 struct xen_bus_type {
@@ -52,16 +56,49 @@ enum xenstore_init {
 	XS_LOCAL,
 };
 
+struct xs_watch_event {
+	struct list_head list;
+	unsigned int len;
+	struct xenbus_watch *handle;
+	const char *path;
+	const char *token;
+	char body[];
+};
+
+enum xb_req_state {
+	xb_req_state_queued,
+	xb_req_state_wait_reply,
+	xb_req_state_got_reply,
+	xb_req_state_aborted
+};
+
+struct xb_req_data {
+	struct list_head list;
+	wait_queue_head_t wq;
+	struct xsd_sockmsg msg;
+	enum xsd_sockmsg_type type;
+	char *body;
+	const struct kvec *vec;
+	int num_vecs;
+	int err;
+	enum xb_req_state state;
+	void (*cb)(struct xb_req_data *);
+	void *par;
+};
+
 extern enum xenstore_init xen_store_domain_type;
 extern const struct attribute_group *xenbus_dev_groups[];
+extern struct mutex xs_response_mutex;
+extern struct list_head xs_reply_list;
+extern struct list_head xb_write_list;
+extern wait_queue_head_t xb_waitq;
+extern struct mutex xb_write_mutex;
 
 int xs_init(void);
 int xb_init_comms(void);
 void xb_deinit_comms(void);
-int xb_write(const void *data, unsigned int len);
-int xb_read(void *data, unsigned int len);
-int xb_data_to_read(void);
-int xb_wait_for_data_to_read(void);
+int xs_watch_msg(struct xs_watch_event *event);
+void xs_request_exit(struct xb_req_data *req);
 
 int xenbus_match(struct device *_dev, struct device_driver *_drv);
 int xenbus_dev_probe(struct device *_dev);
@@ -92,6 +129,7 @@ int xenbus_read_otherend_details(struct xenbus_device *xendev,
 
 void xenbus_ring_ops_init(void);
 
-void *xenbus_dev_request_and_reply(struct xsd_sockmsg *msg);
+int xenbus_dev_request_and_reply(struct xsd_sockmsg *msg, void *par);
+void xenbus_dev_queue_reply(struct xb_req_data *req);
 
 #endif