Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:35:19 +0800 | From | Wei Wang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Virtio-balloon Improvement |
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On 10/22/2017 11:19 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 07:54:23PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: >> This patch series intends to summarize the recent contributions made by >> Michael S. Tsirkin, Tetsuo Handa, Michal Hocko etc. via reporting and >> discussing the related deadlock issues on the mailinglist. Please check >> each patch for details. >> >> >From a high-level point of view, this patch series achieves: >> 1) eliminate the deadlock issue fundamentally caused by the inability >> to run leak_balloon and fill_balloon concurrently; > We need to think about this carefully. Is it an issue that > leak can now bypass fill? It seems that we can now > try to leak a page before fill was seen by host, > but I did not look into it deeply. > > I really like my patch for this better at least for > current kernel. I agree we need to work more on 2+3. >
Since we have many customers interested in the "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series, please review the v17 patches first (it has a dependency on your patch for that deadlock fix, so I included it there too), and we can get back to 2+3 here after that series is done. Thanks.
Best, Wei
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