Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen/grant: introduce func gnttab_unmap_refs_async_wait_completion()

From: Bob Liu
Date: Sun Mar 29 2015 - 20:04:20 EST



On 03/28/2015 08:44 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 04:32:45PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> El 26/03/15 a les 13.16, Bob Liu ha escrit:
>>> There are several place using gnttab async unmap and wait for
>>> completion, so move the common code to a function
>>> gnttab_unmap_refs_async_wait_completion().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> For the blkback parts:
>>
>> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Although, as David already said, I think we should do better than BUG_ON
>> on error.
>

This patch only keeps the existing behaviour the same as before. I
prefer to make new patches(based on this one) if want to change the
behaviour.

> Have an 'stuck deferred pages' list and an timer to occasionally
> flush them out? Something similar to 569ca5b3f94cd0b3295ec5943aa457cf4a4f6a3a
> "xen/gnttab: add deferred freeing logic" ?

Sounds like a good idea.

--
Regards,
-Bob
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