From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com,
jasowang@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: Don't post pressure status from interrupt context
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 08:04:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141207080433.GA4531@sucs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417559355-13730-3-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 02:29:15PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> We currently release memory (balloon down) in the interrupt context and we also
> post memory status while releasing memory. Rather than posting the status
> in the interrupt context, wakeup the status posting thread to post the status.
> This will address the inconsistent lock state that Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
> reported:
Sorry I didn't follow up on this. Things looked better after the patch
but I was seeing a strange issue where the memory was being reduced to
some minimum and the balloon would never shrink so the available memory
was seemingly locked from then on. I ran out of time to investigate this
later behaviour and didn't have the time to check if it had always been
the case but I think I see other patches saying you nailed it and other
issues. Do you have a published git tree with all these pieces in or
have they already been mainlined?
--
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-07 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-02 22:28 [PATCH 0/3] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-12-02 22:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: Make adjustments in computing the floor K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-12-02 21:51 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-02 22:03 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-12-02 22:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: Fix a locking bug in the balloon driver K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-12-02 22:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: Don't post pressure status from interrupt context K. Y. Srinivasan
2014-12-07 8:04 ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2014-12-08 6:04 ` KY Srinivasan
2014-12-10 20:50 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2014-12-10 23:43 ` KY Srinivasan
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