From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] vhost_net: poll vhost queue after marking DMA is done Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:44:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1377881073.2065.10.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> References: <1377836962-49780-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> <1377836962-49780-6-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com To: Jason Wang Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1377836962-49780-6-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 12:29 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > We used to poll vhost queue before making DMA is done, this is racy if vhost > thread were waked up before marking DMA is done which can result the signal to > be missed. Fix this by always poll the vhost thread before DMA is done. Does this bug only exist in net-next or is it older? Should the fix go to net and stable branches? Ben. > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang > --- > drivers/vhost/net.c | 9 +++++---- > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c > index ff60c2a..d09c17c 100644 > --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c > +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c > @@ -308,6 +308,11 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success) > struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq; > int cnt = atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount); > > + /* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */ > + vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ? > + VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN; > + vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs); > + > /* > * Trigger polling thread if guest stopped submitting new buffers: > * in this case, the refcount after decrement will eventually reach 1 > @@ -318,10 +323,6 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success) > */ > if (cnt <= 2 || !(cnt % 16)) > vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll); > - /* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */ > - vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ? > - VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN; > - vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs); > } > > /* Expects to be always run from workqueue - which acts as -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.