[PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

[PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

[Rusty Russell]

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf
returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of
memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work,
and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 06c30df..85615a3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
 static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	int err;
-	bool oom = false;
+	bool oom;
 
 	do {
 		if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
@@ -426,10 +426,9 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
 		else
 			err = add_recvbuf_small(vi, gfp);
 
-		if (err < 0) {
-			oom = true;
+		oom = err == -ENOMEM;
+		if (err < 0)
 			break;
-		}
 		++vi->num;
 	} while (err > 0);
 	if (unlikely(vi->num > vi->max))

[PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx

[Rusty Russell]

virtio net will never try to overflow the TX ring, so the only reason
add_buf may fail is out of memory. Thus, we can not stop the
device until some request completes - there's no guarantee anything
at all is outstanding.

Make the error message clearer as well: error here does not
indicate queue full.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (...and avoid TX_BUSY)
Cc: stable@kernel.org  # .34.x (s/virtqueue_/vi->svq->vq_ops->/)
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -562,7 +562,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_
 	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int capacity;
 
-again:
 	/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
 	free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
 
@@ -571,14 +570,20 @@ again:
 
 	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
 	if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) {
-		netif_stop_queue(dev);
-		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Unexpected full queue\n");
-		if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb(vi->svq))) {
-			virtqueue_disable_cb(vi->svq);
-			netif_start_queue(dev);
-			goto again;
+		if (net_ratelimit()) {
+			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) {
+				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
+					 "TX queue failure: out of memory\n");
+			} else {
+				dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
+				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
+					 "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n",
+					 capacity);
+			}
 		}
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 	virtqueue_kick(vi->svq);
 

Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx

[David Miller]

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:34:01 +1000

> virtio net will never try to overflow the TX ring, so the only reason
> add_buf may fail is out of memory. Thus, we can not stop the
> device until some request completes - there's no guarantee anything
> at all is outstanding.
> 
> Make the error message clearer as well: error here does not
> indicate queue full.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (...and avoid TX_BUSY)
> Cc: stable@kernel.org  # .34.x (s/virtqueue_/vi->svq->vq_ops->/)

Applied.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

[David Miller]

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:32:55 +1000

> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf
> returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of
> memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work,
> and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x

Applied.