Re: [PATCH v1 01/23] vmw_balloon: adjust BALLOON_DEFLATE when deflating while migrating

[SeongJae Park]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:59:06 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When we're effectively deflating the balloon while migrating a page
> because inflating the new page failed, we're not adjusting
> BALLOON_DEFLATE.
> 
> Let's do that. This is a preparation for factoring out this handling to
> the core code, making it work in a similar way first.
> 
> As this (deflating while migrating because of inflation error) is a
> corner case that I don't really expect to happen in practice
> and the stats are not that crucial, this likely doesn't classify as a fix.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
SJ

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