Patch "vmbus: more host signalling avoidance" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    vmbus: more host signalling avoidance

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     vmbus-more-host-signalling-avoidance.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 03bad714a1619c0074eb44d6f217c505fe27030f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:30:28 -0700
Subject: vmbus: more host signalling avoidance

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

commit 03bad714a1619c0074eb44d6f217c505fe27030f upstream.

Don't signal host if it has disabled interrupts for that
ring buffer. Check the feature bit to see if host supports
pending send size flag.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
@@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ void hv_pkt_iter_close(struct vmbus_chan
 {
 	struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi = &channel->inbound;
 	u32 orig_write_sz = hv_get_bytes_to_write(rbi);
-	u32 pending_sz;
 
 	/*
 	 * Make sure all reads are done before we update the read index since
@@ -419,15 +418,27 @@ void hv_pkt_iter_close(struct vmbus_chan
 	 */
 	virt_mb();
 
-	pending_sz = READ_ONCE(rbi->ring_buffer->pending_send_sz);
-	/* If the other end is not blocked on write don't bother. */
-	if (pending_sz == 0)
+	/* If host has disabled notifications then skip */
+	if (rbi->ring_buffer->interrupt_mask)
 		return;
 
-	if (hv_get_bytes_to_write(rbi) < pending_sz)
-		return;
+	if (rbi->ring_buffer->feature_bits.feat_pending_send_sz) {
+		u32 pending_sz = READ_ONCE(rbi->ring_buffer->pending_send_sz);
+
+		/*
+		 * If there was space before we began iteration,
+		 * then host was not blocked. Also handles case where
+		 * pending_sz is zero then host has nothing pending
+		 * and does not need to be signaled.
+		 */
+		if (orig_write_sz > pending_sz)
+			return;
+
+		/* If pending write will not fit, don't give false hope. */
+		if (hv_get_bytes_to_write(rbi) < pending_sz)
+			return;
+	}
 
-	if (orig_write_sz < pending_sz)
-		vmbus_setevent(channel);
+	vmbus_setevent(channel);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_pkt_iter_close);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stephen@networkplumber.org are

queue-4.13/vmbus-more-host-signalling-avoidance.patch
queue-4.13/vmbus-refactor-hv_signal_on_read.patch
queue-4.13/vmbus-simplify-hv_ringbuffer_read.patch
queue-4.13/vmbus-eliminate-duplicate-cached-index.patch