On 10/07/15 15:42, Juergen Gross wrote: > When dom0 is being ballooned balloon_process() will hold the balloon > mutex until it is finished. This will block e.g. creation of new > domains as the device backends for the new domain need some > autoballooned pages for the ring buffers. > > Avoid this by releasing the balloon mutex from time to time during > ballooning. Add a state variable to indicate one balloon_process() > is active to avoid multiple balloon processes fighting for the mutex.
Is this state variable necessary? balloon_process() is a work item so there should only be one instance of it running anyway, yes? David _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
