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This patch replaces the formerly fixed 2 KiB data alignment within the packet-stream buffer by a server-defined alignment. This has two benefits. First, when using block servers that provide small block sizes like 512 bytes, we avoid fragmenting the packet-stream buffer, which occurs when aligning 512-byte requests at 2 KiB boundaries. This reduces meta data costs for the packet-stream allocator and also allows fitting more requests into the buffer. Second, block drivers with alignment constraints dictated by the hardware can now pass those constraints to the client, thereby easing the use of zero-copy DMA directly into the packet stream. The alignment is determined by the Block::Session_client at construction time and applied by the Block::Session_client::alloc_packet method. Block-session clients should always use this method, not the 'alloc_packet' method of the packet stream (tx source) directly. The latter merely applies a default alignment of 2 KiB. At the server side, the alignment is automatically checked by block/component.h (old API) and block/request_stream.h (new API). Issue #3274 |
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README
This directory contains an Genode Block service that uses a file on a Linux system as backing store. Configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The backing store is specified by the 'file' attribute. The pretended block size is specified by the 'block_size' attribute. In case it is omitted, a default block size of 512 bytes is used. To allow write access, the 'writeable' attribute must be set to 'yes'. By default only read-only access it allowed. An example configuration is shown in the the following config snippet: !<config file="/foo/bar/block.img" block_size="512" writeable="yes"/> Notes ~~~~~ The backing file is opened with blocking semantics and thereby the block session is used synchronously.