From: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp, linux-mm@kvack.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Virtio-balloon Improvement
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:35:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59FC2A47.3020103__42057.7980265536$1509697994$gmane$org@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171022061307-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-03 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-20 11:54 [PATCH v1 0/3] Virtio-balloon Improvement Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] virtio-balloon: replace the coarse-grained balloon_lock Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 5:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 5:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 5:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 11:24 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:24 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:24 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 11:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-24 1:46 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-24 1:46 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-24 1:46 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] virtio-balloon: deflate up to oom_pages on OOM Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 3:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 3:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 3:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 4:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 4:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 4:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-10-22 11:31 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:31 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:31 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] virtio-balloon: stop inflating when OOM occurs Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 17:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 17:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 17:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-24 1:58 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-24 1:58 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-24 1:58 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-20 11:54 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 3:19 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] Virtio-balloon Improvement Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 3:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 3:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-22 11:19 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:19 ` Wei Wang
2017-10-22 11:19 ` Wei Wang
2017-11-03 8:35 ` Wei Wang
2017-11-03 8:35 ` Wei Wang
2017-11-03 8:35 ` Wei Wang [this message]
2017-10-20 11:54 Wei Wang
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