virtio-blk: add num_request_queues module parameter

Sometimes a user would like to control the amount of request queues to
be created for a block device. For example, for limiting the memory
footprint of virtio-blk devices.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210902204622.54354-1-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index 6767fb7..a33fe07 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -30,6 +30,25 @@
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_INLINE_SG_CNT       2
 #endif
 
+static int virtblk_queue_count_set(const char *val,
+               const struct kernel_param *kp)
+{
+       return param_set_uint_minmax(val, kp, 1, nr_cpu_ids);
+}
+
+static const struct kernel_param_ops queue_count_ops = {
+       .set = virtblk_queue_count_set,
+       .get = param_get_uint,
+};
+
+static unsigned int num_request_queues;
+module_param_cb(num_request_queues, &queue_count_ops, &num_request_queues,
+               0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(num_request_queues,
+                "Limit the number of request queues to use for blk device. "
+                "0 for no limit. "
+                "Values > nr_cpu_ids truncated to nr_cpu_ids.");
+
 static int major;
 static DEFINE_IDA(vd_index_ida);
 
@@ -553,7 +572,9 @@ static int init_vq(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
        if (err)
                num_vqs = 1;
 
-       num_vqs = min_t(unsigned int, nr_cpu_ids, num_vqs);
+       num_vqs = min_t(unsigned int,
+                       min_not_zero(num_request_queues, nr_cpu_ids),
+                       num_vqs);
 
        vblk->vqs = kmalloc_array(num_vqs, sizeof(*vblk->vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!vblk->vqs)