Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_balloon: fix pages_to_free calculation

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 01:38:10PM -0800, Khazhismel Kumykov wrote:
> freed_pages was accumulating total freed pages, but was also subtracted
> on each iteration from pages_to_free, which could potentially result in
> attempting to free fewer pages than asked for. This change also makes
> both freed_pages and pages_to_free in terms of "balloon pages", where
> they were mismatched before.

And then patch 2/2 changes it back to both be regular pages.
Which is good, but why do we have to go back and forth
breaking then fixing it back?


> 
> Fixes: 71994620bb25 ("virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker")
> Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 226fbb995fb0..7cf9540a40b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -782,11 +782,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_balloon_pages(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
>  	 * VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX balloon pages, so we call it
>  	 * multiple times to deflate pages till reaching pages_to_free.
>  	 */
> -	while (vb->num_pages && pages_to_free) {
> -		pages_freed += leak_balloon(vb, pages_to_free) /
> -					VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> -		pages_to_free -= pages_freed;
> -	}
> +	while (vb->num_pages && pages_to_free > pages_freed)
> +		pages_freed += leak_balloon(vb, pages_to_free - pages_freed);
>  	update_balloon_size(vb);
>  
>  	return pages_freed;
> -- 
> 2.24.0.432.g9d3f5f5b63-goog