From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [PATCH 10 of 22] xenpaging: correct dropping of pages to avoid full ring buffer
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:12:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1de8de108d152fe915fc.1307697179@probook.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1307697169@probook.site>
# HG changeset patch
# User Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
# Date 1307695634 -7200
# Node ID 1de8de108d152fe915fc7f78044c406fed872bca
# Parent 9c42376aac05dc21a617d1d9fd62037cb8a9700d
xenpaging: correct dropping of pages to avoid full ring buffer
Doing a one-way channel from Xen to xenpaging is not possible with the
current ring buffer implementation. xenpaging uses the mem_event ring
buffer, which expects request/response pairs to make progress. The
previous patch, which tried to establish a one-way communication from
Xen to xenpaging, stalled the guest once the buffer was filled up with
requests. Correct page-dropping by taking the slow path and let
p2m_mem_paging_resume() consume the response from xenpaging. This makes
room for yet another request/response pair and avoids hanging guests.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
diff -r 9c42376aac05 -r 1de8de108d15 tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c
--- a/tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c Fri Jun 10 10:47:12 2011 +0200
+++ b/tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c Fri Jun 10 10:47:14 2011 +0200
@@ -690,19 +690,19 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
ERROR("Error populating page");
goto out;
}
+ }
- /* Prepare the response */
- rsp.gfn = req.gfn;
- rsp.p2mt = req.p2mt;
- rsp.vcpu_id = req.vcpu_id;
- rsp.flags = req.flags;
+ /* Prepare the response */
+ rsp.gfn = req.gfn;
+ rsp.p2mt = req.p2mt;
+ rsp.vcpu_id = req.vcpu_id;
+ rsp.flags = req.flags;
- rc = xenpaging_resume_page(paging, &rsp, 1);
- if ( rc != 0 )
- {
- ERROR("Error resuming page");
- goto out;
- }
+ rc = xenpaging_resume_page(paging, &rsp, 1);
+ if ( rc != 0 )
+ {
+ ERROR("Error resuming page");
+ goto out;
}
/* Evict a new page to replace the one we just paged in */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-10 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 9:12 [PATCH 00 of 22] xenpaging and libxc fixes for xen-unstable Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 01 of 22] xenpaging: remove unused spinlock in pager Olaf Hering
2011-06-21 16:24 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 02 of 22] tools: merge several bitop functions into xc_bitops.h Olaf Hering
2011-06-21 16:16 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-21 16:20 ` Olaf Hering
2011-06-21 16:25 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-21 17:17 ` Olaf Hering
2011-06-21 17:18 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-22 14:03 ` Ian Jackson
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 03 of 22] xenpaging: add xs_handle to struct xenpaging Olaf Hering
2011-06-14 11:05 ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-20 9:58 ` [PATCH 03 of 22 v2] " Olaf Hering
2011-06-21 13:17 ` Ian Campbell
2011-06-21 15:33 ` [PATCH 03 of 22 v3] " Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 04 of 22] xenpaging: drop xc.c, remove ASSERT Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 05 of 22] xenpaging: drop xc.c, remove xc_platform_info_t Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 06 of 22] xenpaging: drop xc.c, remove xc_wait_for_event Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 07 of 22] xenpaging: drop xc.c, move xc_mem_paging_flush_ioemu_cache Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 08 of 22] xenpaging: drop xc.c, move xc_wait_for_event_or_timeout Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` [PATCH 09 of 22] xenpaging: drop xc.c, remove xc files Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:12 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 11 of 22] xenpaging: do not bounce p2mt to xenpaging Olaf Hering
2011-06-13 10:48 ` Tim Deegan
2011-06-20 9:57 ` [PATCH 11 of 22 v2] xenpaging: do not bounce p2mt back to the hypervisor Olaf Hering
2011-06-20 10:36 ` Tim Deegan
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 12 of 22] xenpaging: remove srand call Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 13 of 22] xenpaging: remove return values from functions that can not fail Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 14 of 22] xenpaging: catch xc_mem_paging_resume errors Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 15 of 22] xenpaging: remove local domain_id variable Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 16 of 22] xenpaging: move num_pages into xenpaging struct Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 17 of 22] xenpaging: start paging in the middle of gfn range Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 18 of 22] xenpaging: pass integer to xenpaging_populate_page Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 19 of 22] xenpaging: add helper function for unlinking pagefile Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 20 of 22] xenpaging: add watch thread to catch guest shutdown Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 21 of 22] xenpaging: implement stopping of pager by sending SIGTERM/SIGINT Olaf Hering
2011-06-10 9:13 ` [PATCH 22 of 22] xenpaging: remove private mem_event.h Olaf Hering
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