Re: [PATCH 1/1] virtio_net: Add timeout handler to avoid kernel hang

[Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>]

在 2024/1/20 1:29, Andrew Lunn 写道:
>>>>>        while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&
>>>>> -           !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
>>>>> +           !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) {
>>>>> +        if (timeout)
>>>>> +            timeout--;
>>>> This is not really a timeout, just a loop counter. 200 iterations could
>>>> be a very short time on reasonable H/W. I guess this avoid the soft
>>>> lockup, but possibly (likely?) breaks the functionality when we need to
>>>> loop for some non negligible time.
>>>>
>>>> I fear we need a more complex solution, as mentioned by Micheal in the
>>>> thread you quoted.
>>> Got it. I also look forward to the more complex solution to this problem.
>> Can we add a device capability (new feature bit) such as ctrq_wait_timeout
>> to get a reasonable timeout？
> The usual solution to this is include/linux/iopoll.h. If you can sleep
> read_poll_timeout() otherwise read_poll_timeout_atomic().

Thanks. The 2 functions read_poll_timeout() and 
read_poll_timeout_atomic() are interesting.

Zhu Yanjun

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> 	Andrew