On 26/01/2022 13:43, Jason Andryuk wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:40 AM Durrant, Paul <xadimg...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/12/2021 11:34, Jason Andryuk wrote:
commit f37f29d31488 "xen: slightly simplify bufioreq handling" hard
coded setting req.count = 1 during initial field setup before the main
loop.  This missed a subtlety that an early exit from the loop when
there are no ioreqs to process, would have req.count == 0 for the return
value.  handle_buffered_io() would then remove state->buffered_io_timer.
Instead handle_buffered_iopage() is basically always returning true and
handle_buffered_io() always re-setting the timer.

Restore the disabling of the timer by introducing a new handled_ioreq
boolean and use as the return value.  The named variable will more
clearly show the intent of the code.

Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandr...@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org>

Thanks, Paul.

What is the next step for getting this into QEMU?


Anthony, can you queue this?

  Paul

To re-state more plainly, this patch fixes a bug to let QEMU go idle
for longer stretches of time.  Without it, buffer_io_timer continues
to re-arm and fire every 100ms even if there is nothing to do.

Regards,
Jason


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