Re: [PATCH v23 2/2] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ

From: Wei Wang
Date: Wed Jan 24 2018 - 00:45:26 EST


On 01/24/2018 01:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:50:27AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
This will not DTRT in all cases. It's quite possible
that host does not need the kick when ring is half full but
does need it later when ring is full.
You can kick at ring half full as optimization but you absolutely
still must kick on ring full. Something like:

if (vq->num_free == virtqueue_get_vring_size(vq) / 2 ||
vq->num_free <= 2)

Right. Would "if (vq->num_free < virtqueue_get_vring_size(vq) / 2" be better?


Best,
Wei