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Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq
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David Hildenbrand |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq |
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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:11:05 +0100 |
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On 25.11.21 17:09, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 09:28:59AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 25.11.21 03:20, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> We only process the first in sg which may lead to the bitmap of the
>>> pages belongs to following sgs were not cleared. This may result more
>>> pages to be migrated. Fixing this by process all in sgs for
>>> free_page_vq.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>> hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 7 +++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>>> index c6962fcbfe..17de2558cb 100644
>>> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>>> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>>> @@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ static bool get_free_page_hints(VirtIOBalloon *dev)
>>> VirtIODevice *vdev = VIRTIO_DEVICE(dev);
>>> VirtQueue *vq = dev->free_page_vq;
>>> bool ret = true;
>>> + int i;
>>>
>>> while (dev->block_iothread) {
>>> qemu_cond_wait(&dev->free_page_cond, &dev->free_page_lock);
>>> @@ -544,8 +545,10 @@ static bool get_free_page_hints(VirtIOBalloon *dev)
>>> }
>>>
>>> if (elem->in_num && dev->free_page_hint_status ==
>>> FREE_PAGE_HINT_S_START) {
>>> - qemu_guest_free_page_hint(elem->in_sg[0].iov_base,
>>> - elem->in_sg[0].iov_len);
>>> + for (i = 0; i < elem->in_num; i++) {
>>> + qemu_guest_free_page_hint(elem->in_sg[i].iov_base,
>>> + elem->in_sg[i].iov_len);
>>> + }
>>> }
>>>
>>> out:
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but:
>>
>> 1. Linux never used more than one
>> 2. QEMU never consumed more than one
>>
>> The spec states:
>>
>> "(b) The driver maps a series of pages and adds them to the free_page_vq
>> as individual scatter-gather input buffer entries."
>>
>> However, the spec was written by someone else (Alex) as the code was
>> (Wei). The code was there first.
>>
>> I don't particularly care what to adjust (code or spec). However, to me
>> it feels more like the spec is slightly wrong and it was intended like
>> the code is by the original code author.
>>
>> But then again, I don't particularly care :)
>
> Original QEMU side code had several bugs so, that's another one.
> Given nothing too bad happens if guest submits too many S/Gs,
> and given the spec also has a general chapter suggesting devices
> are flexible in accepting a single buffer split to multiple S/Gs,
> I'm inclined to accept the patch.
Yeah, as I said, I don't particularly care. It's certainly an "easy change".
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
- [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Jason Wang, 2021/11/24
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, David Hildenbrand, 2021/11/25
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2021/11/25
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq,
David Hildenbrand <=
- RE: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Wang, Wei W, 2021/11/25
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2021/11/25
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Jason Wang, 2021/11/25
- RE: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Wang, Wei W, 2021/11/25
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Jason Wang, 2021/11/25
Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito-balloon: process all in sgs for free_page_vq, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/11/25