Re: [PATCH v14 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG

[Wei Wang]

On 08/18/2017 10:22 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> +static void send_balloon_page_sg(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> +				 struct virtqueue *vq,
> +				 void *addr,
> +				 uint32_t size)
> +{
> +	unsigned int len;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	do {
> +		ret = add_one_sg(vq, addr, size);
> +		virtqueue_kick(vq);
> +		wait_event(vb->acked, virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len));
> +		/*
> +		 * It is uncommon to see the vq is full, because the sg is sent
> +		 * one by one and the device is able to handle it in time. But
> +		 * if that happens, we go back to retry after an entry gets
> +		 * released.
> +		 */
> Why send one by one though? Why not batch some s/gs and wait for all
> of them to be completed? If memory if fragmented, waiting every time is
> worse than what we have now (VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX at a time).

OK, I'll do batching in some fashion.


Best,
Wei