Re: [PATCH] xen/balloon: use a kernel thread instead a workqueue

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 8/27/21 8:32 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> +static bool balloon_thread_cond(enum bp_state state, long credit)
> +{
> +	if (state != BP_EAGAIN)
> +		credit = 0;
> +
> +	return current_credit() != credit || kthread_should_stop();
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * As this is a kthread it is guaranteed to run as a single instance only.
>   * We may of course race updates of the target counts (which are protected
>   * by the balloon lock), or with changes to the Xen hard limit, but we will
>   * recover from these in time.
>   */
> -static void balloon_process(struct work_struct *work)
> +static int balloon_thread(void *unused)
>  {
>  	enum bp_state state = BP_DONE;
>  	long credit;
> +	unsigned long timeout;
> +
> +	set_freezable();
> +	for (;;) {
> +		if (state == BP_EAGAIN)
> +			timeout = balloon_stats.schedule_delay * HZ;
> +		else
> +			timeout = 3600 * HZ;
> +		credit = current_credit();
>  
> +		wait_event_interruptible_timeout(balloon_thread_wq,
> +				 balloon_thread_cond(state, credit), timeout);


Given that wait_event_interruptible_timeout() is a bunch of nested macros do we need to worry here about overly aggressive compiler optimizing out 'credit = current_credit()'?


-boris