MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_persistent_grants,
                  "Maximum number of grants to map persistently");
 
+/*
+ * Maximum number of rings/queues blkback supports, allow as many queues as there
+ * are CPUs if user has not specified a value.
+ */
+unsigned int xenblk_max_queues;
+module_param_named(max_queues, xenblk_max_queues, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_queues,
+                "Maximum number of hardware queues per virtual disk." \
+                "By default it is the number of online CPUs.");
+
 /*
  * Maximum order of pages to be used for the shared ring between front and
  * backend, 4KB page granularity is used.
                xen_blkif_max_ring_order = XENBUS_MAX_RING_GRANT_ORDER;
        }
 
+       if (xenblk_max_queues == 0)
+               xenblk_max_queues = num_online_cpus();
+
        rc = xen_blkif_interface_init();
        if (rc)
                goto failed_init;
 
        blkif->st_print = jiffies;
        INIT_WORK(&blkif->persistent_purge_work, xen_blkbk_unmap_purged_grants);
 
-       blkif->nr_rings = 1;
-       if (xen_blkif_alloc_rings(blkif)) {
-               kmem_cache_free(xen_blkif_cachep, blkif);
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-       }
-
        return blkif;
 }
 
                goto fail;
        }
 
+       /* Multi-queue: advertise how many queues are supported by us.*/
+       err = xenbus_printf(XBT_NIL, dev->nodename,
+                           "multi-queue-max-queues", "%u", xenblk_max_queues);
+       if (err)
+               pr_warn("Error writing multi-queue-max-queues\n");
+
        /* setup back pointer */
        be->blkif->be = be;
 
        char *xspath;
        size_t xspathsize;
        const size_t xenstore_path_ext_size = 11; /* sufficient for "/queue-NNN" */
+       unsigned int requested_num_queues = 0;
 
        pr_debug("%s %s\n", __func__, dev->otherend);
 
        be->blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = pers_grants;
        be->blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;
 
+       /*
+        * Read the number of hardware queues from frontend.
+        */
+       err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "multi-queue-num-queues",
+                          "%u", &requested_num_queues);
+       if (err < 0) {
+               requested_num_queues = 1;
+       } else {
+               if (requested_num_queues > xenblk_max_queues
+                   || requested_num_queues == 0) {
+                       /* Buggy or malicious guest. */
+                       xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err,
+                                       "guest requested %u queues, exceeding the maximum of %u.",
+                                       requested_num_queues, xenblk_max_queues);
+                       return -ENOSYS;
+               }
+       }
+       be->blkif->nr_rings = requested_num_queues;
+       if (xen_blkif_alloc_rings(be->blkif))
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        pr_info("%s: using %d queues, protocol %d (%s) %s\n", dev->nodename,
                 be->blkif->nr_rings, be->blkif->blk_protocol, protocol,
                 pers_grants ? "persistent grants" : "");