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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: Notify guest only after deflating the balloon

Doesn't this basically just revert
bf50e69f63d21091e525185c3ae761412be0ba72?


On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 06:06:56AM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Unless the host requires that requested pages won't be used until
> he us notified (VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST), only notify after
> deflating the balloon.
>
> This will avoid having to take an exit before actually using the pages.
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 16 ++++++++++------
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index e058ace..055f95d 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -148,14 +148,18 @@ static void leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> vb->num_pages--;
> }
>
> -
> /*
> - * Note that if
> - * virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST);
> - * is true, we *have* to do it in this order
> + * If the host doesn't require us to notify him before using
> + * pages which belong to the balloon, update him only after
> + * freeing those pages for guest use.
> */
> - tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> - release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
> + if (virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST)) {
> + tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> + release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
> + } else {
> + release_pages_by_pfn(vb->pfns, vb->num_pfns);
> + tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> + }
> }
>
> static inline void update_stat(struct virtio_balloon *vb, int idx,
> --
> 1.7.6


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