From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca>,
dtatulea@nvidia.com, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>, Joe Damato <joe@dama.to>,
Frederik Deweerdt <fdeweerdt@fastly.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] net: napi: Fix timer arming during busy poll timeout
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:51:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428175134.1197036-2-dtatulea@nvidia.com> (raw)
Under certain conditions a queue can be left out with interrupts
disabled and with the napi re-scheduling timer permanently stopped.
This behaviour is triggered by the napi busy poll path when
gro-flush-timeout and defer-hard-irq are set.
The first patch is a fix and has a more detailed description of how
the issue can occur.
The second patch represents an improvement which needs additional
review (hence the RFC).
The strategy for the non-RFC version is to send the first patch
as a fix to net and then send the improvement to net-next because
of the behavioral change (skipping the poll).
Is this the right way to go or should the 2 patches be squashed into
a fix for net?
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241105210338.5364375d@kernel.org/
Dragos Tatulea (1):
net: napi: Fix interrupts permanently disabled during busy poll
Martin Karsten (1):
net: napi: Skip poll when arming GRO timer in busy poll
net/core/dev.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 17:51 Dragos Tatulea [this message]
2026-04-28 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] net: napi: Fix interrupts permanently disabled during busy poll Dragos Tatulea
2026-04-28 23:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-29 0:04 ` Martin Karsten
2026-04-29 0:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-29 8:13 ` Dragos Tatulea
2026-04-29 22:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-29 0:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-29 8:43 ` Dragos Tatulea
2026-04-29 12:13 ` Björn Töpel
2026-04-29 12:43 ` Dragos Tatulea
2026-05-04 11:30 ` Dragos Tatulea
2026-05-05 1:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-28 17:51 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] net: napi: Skip poll when arming GRO timer in " Dragos Tatulea
2026-04-29 0:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-29 1:02 ` Martin Karsten
2026-04-29 12:37 ` Björn Töpel
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