Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] virtio-balloon: replace the coarse-grained balloon_lock

2017-10-21 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Wei Wang wrote: > The balloon_lock was used to synchronize the access demand to elements > of struct virtio_balloon and its queue operations (please see commit > e22504296d). This prevents the concurrent run of the leak_balloon and > fill_balloon functions, thereby resulting in a deadlock issue on

Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] virtio-balloon: deflate up to oom_pages on OOM

2017-10-21 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 07:54:25PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > > The current implementation only deflates 256 pages even when a user > > specifies more than that via the oom_pages module param. This patch > > enables the deflating of up to oom_pages pages if there are

Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] virtio-balloon: deflate up to oom_pages on OOM

2017-10-21 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 07:54:25PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > The current implementation only deflates 256 pages even when a user > specifies more than that via the oom_pages module param. This patch > enables the deflating of up to oom_pages pages if there are enough > inflated pages. > >

Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Virtio-balloon Improvement

2017-10-21 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
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

Call for papers - WorldCIST'18 - Naples, Italy

2017-10-21 Thread ML
* Extended versions of best selected papers will be published in JCR/SCI/SSCI journals --- WorldCist'18 - 6th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Naples,