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From: "Bo Liu (刘波)-浪潮信息" <liubo03@inspur.com>
To: "mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "david@redhat.com" <david@redhat.com>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: check virtqueue_add_outbuf() return value
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 02:16:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a413652a9a9469f948fbfa2eae5c401@inspur.com> (raw)

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Adding this patch can avoid unnecessary VM exits and reduce the number of VM exits

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> 
发送时间: 2022年5月27日 18:58
收件人: Bo Liu (刘波)-浪潮信息 <liubo03@inspur.com>
抄送: david@redhat.com; jasowang@redhat.com; virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
主题: Re: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: check virtqueue_add_outbuf() return value

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:43:30AM +0000, Bo Liu (刘波)-浪潮信息 wrote:
> The purpose of this patch is, virtqueue_add_outbuf() adding data to 
> virtqueue may succeed or fail. If successful, it will call 
> virtqueue_kick() to notifie the host backend driver, but if the 
> virtqueue_add_outbuf() fails, the data is not successfully added to 
> the virtqueue, and the host back-end driver does not need to be notified for processing.
> 
> Thanks.

Why is it a problem if we do?

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MST


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             reply	other threads:[~2022-05-30  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-30  2:16 Bo Liu (刘波)-浪潮信息 [this message]
2022-05-30  7:00 ` David Hildenbrand
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2022-05-27 10:43 Bo Liu (刘波)-浪潮信息
2022-05-27 10:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-27  1:34 Bo Liu
2022-05-27 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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