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Tsirkin" To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Bui Quang Minh , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , Eugenio =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , John Fastabend , Stanislav Fomichev , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 1/3] virtio-net: don't schedule delayed refill worker Message-ID: <20260110051335-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20260106150438.7425-1-minhquangbui99@gmail.com> <20260106150438.7425-2-minhquangbui99@gmail.com> <20260109181239.1c272f88@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260109181239.1c272f88@kernel.org> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 06:12:39PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 22:04:36 +0700 Bui Quang Minh wrote: > > When we fail to refill the receive buffers, we schedule a delayed worker > > to retry later. However, this worker creates some concurrency issues. > > For example, when the worker runs concurrently with virtnet_xdp_set, > > both need to temporarily disable queue's NAPI before enabling again. > > Without proper synchronization, a deadlock can happen when > > napi_disable() is called on an already disabled NAPI. That > > napi_disable() call will be stuck and so will the subsequent > > napi_enable() call. > > > > To simplify the logic and avoid further problems, we will instead retry > > refilling in the next NAPI poll. > > Happy to see this go FWIW. If it causes issues we should consider > adding some retry logic in the core (NAPI) rather than locally in > the driver.. > > > Fixes: 4bc12818b363 ("virtio-net: disable delayed refill when pausing rx") > > Reported-by: Paolo Abeni > > Closes: https://netdev-ctrl.bots.linux.dev/logs/vmksft/drv-hw-dbg/results/400961/3-xdp-py/stderr > > The Closes should probably point to Paolo's report. We'll wipe these CI > logs sooner or later but the lore archive will stick around. > > > @@ -3230,9 +3230,10 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_device *dev) > > > > for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) { > > if (i < vi->curr_queue_pairs) > > - /* Make sure we have some buffers: if oom use wq. */ > > - if (!try_fill_recv(vi, &vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL)) > > - schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0); > > + /* Pre-fill rq agressively, to make sure we are ready to > > + * get packets immediately. > > + */ > > + try_fill_recv(vi, &vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL); > > We should enforce _some_ minimal fill level at the time of open(). > If the ring is completely empty no traffic will ever flow, right? > Perhaps I missed scheduling the NAPI somewhere.. Practically, single page allocations with GFP_KERNEL don't really fail. So I think it's fine. > > err = virtnet_enable_queue_pair(vi, i); > > if (err < 0) > > @@ -3472,16 +3473,15 @@ static void __virtnet_rx_resume(struct virtnet_info *vi, > > struct receive_queue *rq, > > bool refill) > > { > > - bool running = netif_running(vi->dev); > > - bool schedule_refill = false; > > + if (netif_running(vi->dev)) { > > + /* Pre-fill rq agressively, to make sure we are ready to get > > + * packets immediately. > > + */ > > + if (refill) > > + try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_KERNEL); > > Similar thing here? Tho not sure we can fail here.. > > > - if (refill && !try_fill_recv(vi, rq, GFP_KERNEL)) > > - schedule_refill = true; > > - if (running) > > virtnet_napi_enable(rq); > > - > > - if (schedule_refill) > > - schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0); > > + } > > } > > > > static void virtnet_rx_resume_all(struct virtnet_info *vi) > > @@ -3829,11 +3829,13 @@ static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs) > > } > > succ: > > vi->curr_queue_pairs = queue_pairs; > > - /* virtnet_open() will refill when device is going to up. */ > > - spin_lock_bh(&vi->refill_lock); > > - if (dev->flags & IFF_UP && vi->refill_enabled) > > - schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0); > > - spin_unlock_bh(&vi->refill_lock); > > + if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) { > > + local_bh_disable(); > > + for (int i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; ++i) > > + virtqueue_napi_schedule(&vi->rq[i].napi, vi->rq[i].vq); > > + > > nit: spurious new line > > > + local_bh_enable(); > > + } > > > > return 0; > > }