From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH v23 2/2] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:47:47 +0800 Message-ID: <5A681E03.1030007@intel.com> References: <1516762227-36346-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <1516762227-36346-3-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <20180124064923-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu0@gmail.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180124064923-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 01/24/2018 01:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:50:27AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > This will not DTRT in all cases. It's quite possible > that host does not need the kick when ring is half full but > does need it later when ring is full. > You can kick at ring half full as optimization but you absolutely > still must kick on ring full. Something like: > > if (vq->num_free == virtqueue_get_vring_size(vq) / 2 || > vq->num_free <= 2) Right. Would "if (vq->num_free < virtqueue_get_vring_size(vq) / 2" be better? Best, Wei -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org