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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net/virtio_ring: fix race in enable_cb
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:10:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803172310.52460.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803170730.44218.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

On Monday 17 March 2008 17:30:44 Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > Are you seeing the "Unlikely: restart svq failed" message in the logs? 
> > If not, I don't think it can be this race.
>
> No, I dont see the message, but this message only happens for guest->host
> traffic in the xmit function.

Interesting you don't see this.  Or is it just on that load that you don't see 
it?

> I was fixing the poll function - which has no 
> printk.
> I added the disable_cb in the xmit function only  to adopt to changed
> enable_cb semantics.
>
> I double checked my theory with a printk in enable_cb. The more_used check
> was true several times for the receiving virtqueue.

Excellent, thanks.

I applied your patch, and have asked Linus to pull that and my other qeued 
virtio fixes.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-14 13:17 [PATCH] virtio_net/virtio_ring: fix race in enable_cb Christian Borntraeger
2008-03-17  1:48 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-17  1:48 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-17  6:30   ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-03-17  6:30   ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-03-17 12:10     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-03-17 12:45       ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-03-17 12:45       ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-03-17 12:10     ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-14 13:17 Christian Borntraeger

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