Drivers: hv: balloon: Execute hot-add code in a separate context

Execute the hot-add operation in a separate work context.
This allows us to decouple the pressure reporting activity from the
"hot-add" activity. Testing has shown that this makes the guest more
responsive to hot add requests.

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>

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index 8dc406ccf10f91d2cccd047dd4c1b20ee4ebc283..13fda3807bfb090d24353156ee5bed1ca718046b 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -417,6 +417,11 @@ struct balloon_state {
        struct work_struct wrk;
 };
 
+struct hot_add_wrk {
+       union dm_mem_page_range ha_page_range;
+       struct work_struct wrk;
+};
+
 static bool hot_add;
 static bool do_hot_add;
 /*
@@ -468,6 +473,11 @@ struct hv_dynmem_device {
         */
        struct balloon_state balloon_wrk;
 
+       /*
+        * State to execute the "hot-add" operation.
+        */
+       struct hot_add_wrk ha_wrk;
+
        /*
         * This thread handles hot-add
         * requests from the host as well as notifying
@@ -486,7 +496,7 @@ struct hv_dynmem_device {
 
 static struct hv_dynmem_device dm_device;
 
-static void hot_add_req(struct hv_dynmem_device *dm, struct dm_hot_add *msg)
+static void hot_add_req(struct work_struct *dummy)
 {
 
        struct dm_hot_add_response resp;
@@ -509,8 +519,8 @@ static void hot_add_req(struct hv_dynmem_device *dm, struct dm_hot_add *msg)
        resp.page_count = 0;
        resp.result = 0;
 
-       dm->state = DM_INITIALIZED;
-       vmbus_sendpacket(dm->dev->channel, &resp,
+       dm_device.state = DM_INITIALIZED;
+       vmbus_sendpacket(dm_device.dev->channel, &resp,
                        sizeof(struct dm_hot_add_response),
                        (unsigned long)NULL,
                        VM_PKT_DATA_INBAND, 0);
@@ -771,7 +781,6 @@ static int dm_thread_func(void *dm_dev)
 {
        struct hv_dynmem_device *dm = dm_dev;
        int t;
-       unsigned long  scan_start;
 
        while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
                t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&dm_device.config_event, 1*HZ);
@@ -783,19 +792,6 @@ static int dm_thread_func(void *dm_dev)
                if (t == 0)
                        post_status(dm);
 
-               scan_start = jiffies;
-               switch (dm->state) {
-
-               case DM_HOT_ADD:
-                       hot_add_req(dm, (struct dm_hot_add *)recv_buffer);
-                       break;
-               default:
-                       break;
-               }
-
-               if (!time_in_range(jiffies, scan_start, scan_start + HZ))
-                       post_status(dm);
-
        }
 
        return 0;
@@ -869,6 +865,8 @@ static void balloon_onchannelcallback(void *context)
        struct dm_header *dm_hdr;
        struct hv_dynmem_device *dm = hv_get_drvdata(dev);
        struct dm_balloon *bal_msg;
+       struct dm_hot_add *ha_msg;
+       union dm_mem_page_range *ha_pg_range;
 
        memset(recv_buffer, 0, sizeof(recv_buffer));
        vmbus_recvpacket(dev->channel, recv_buffer,
@@ -905,8 +903,13 @@ static void balloon_onchannelcallback(void *context)
                        break;
 
                case DM_MEM_HOT_ADD_REQUEST:
+                       if (dm->state == DM_HOT_ADD)
+                               pr_warn("Currently hot-adding\n");
                        dm->state = DM_HOT_ADD;
-                       complete(&dm->config_event);
+                       ha_msg = (struct dm_hot_add *)recv_buffer;
+                       ha_pg_range = &ha_msg->range;
+                       dm_device.ha_wrk.ha_page_range = *ha_pg_range;
+                       schedule_work(&dm_device.ha_wrk.wrk);
                        break;
 
                case DM_INFO_MESSAGE:
@@ -950,6 +953,7 @@ static int balloon_probe(struct hv_device *dev,
        init_completion(&dm_device.host_event);
        init_completion(&dm_device.config_event);
        INIT_WORK(&dm_device.balloon_wrk.wrk, balloon_up);
+       INIT_WORK(&dm_device.ha_wrk.wrk, hot_add_req);
 
        dm_device.thread =
                 kthread_run(dm_thread_func, &dm_device, "hv_balloon");
@@ -1062,6 +1066,7 @@ static int balloon_remove(struct hv_device *dev)
                pr_warn("Ballooned pages: %d\n", dm->num_pages_ballooned);
 
        cancel_work_sync(&dm->balloon_wrk.wrk);
+       cancel_work_sync(&dm->ha_wrk.wrk);
        vmbus_close(dev->channel);
        kthread_stop(dm->thread);
        kfree(send_buffer);