On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 01:53:53AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:21:58AM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:26:54PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > I'm sorry - I don't like this patch. This means that > > > virtio_balloon_receive_stats will be called and will poke > > > at the ring even if the ring was never kicked. > > > > I'm not sure I understand what the problem is with that: > > virtio_balloon_receive_stats just returns early if virtio_queue_empty(), > > which is no more poking at the ring than is already done in virtio_load. > > Generally we should not look at ring until there was a kick.
How else would you recover ->inuse? Roman.
