From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com,
boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: release lock occasionally during ballooning
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:15:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55ACCA5E.9070100@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436539354-27850-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On 10/07/15 15:42, Juergen Gross wrote:
> When dom0 is being ballooned balloon_process() will hold the balloon
> mutex until it is finished. This will block e.g. creation of new
> domains as the device backends for the new domain need some
> autoballooned pages for the ring buffers.
>
> Avoid this by releasing the balloon mutex from time to time during
> ballooning. Add a state variable to indicate one balloon_process()
> is active to avoid multiple balloon processes fighting for the mutex.
Is this state variable necessary? balloon_process() is a work item so
there should only be one instance of it running anyway, yes?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-20 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-10 14:42 [PATCH] xen: release lock occasionally during ballooning Juergen Gross
2015-07-10 15:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-07-20 10:15 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2015-07-20 10:46 ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
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