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authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>2013-02-08 23:57:15 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-02-08 23:42:01 (GMT)
commite500d158fb07794724f12655f2eb5702fec613c4 (patch)
tree063ae9f082e012f98ecf7773e83f2d7f3f36b292
parente1e0a9e6991ec2c611f13dfc0a6bc1a214a22374 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-e500d158fb07794724f12655f2eb5702fec613c4.tar.xz
Drivers: hv: balloon: Add a parameter to delay pressure reporting
Delay reporting memory pressure by a specified amount of time. This addresses the problem where the host may take memory balancing decisions based on incorrect memory pressure data that will be posted as soon as the balloon driver is loaded. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index 32a96f1..f8fc996 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -414,10 +414,17 @@ struct dm_info_msg {
static bool hot_add;
static bool do_hot_add;
+/*
+ * Delay reporting memory pressure by
+ * the specified number of seconds.
+ */
+static uint pressure_report_delay = 30;
module_param(hot_add, bool, (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR));
MODULE_PARM_DESC(hot_add, "If set attempt memory hot_add");
+module_param(pressure_report_delay, uint, (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR));
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(pressure_report_delay, "Delay in secs in reporting pressure");
static atomic_t trans_id = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static int dm_ring_size = (5 * PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -531,6 +538,10 @@ static void post_status(struct hv_dynmem_device *dm)
struct dm_status status;
struct sysinfo val;
+ if (pressure_report_delay > 0) {
+ --pressure_report_delay;
+ return;
+ }
si_meminfo(&val);
memset(&status, 0, sizeof(struct dm_status));
status.hdr.type = DM_STATUS_REPORT;
@@ -552,8 +563,6 @@ static void post_status(struct hv_dynmem_device *dm)
}
-
-
static void free_balloon_pages(struct hv_dynmem_device *dm,
union dm_mem_page_range *range_array)
{