From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:40:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100606094048.GA1979@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C07F8FF0200004800097554@sinclair.provo.novell.com>
Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com> wrote:
> Please consider this patch for the 2.6.32, 2.6.33, and 2.6.34 stable trees as well as current development trees. (I've only tested on 2.6.32 however)
>
> virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call
> Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would
> stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any
> problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods
> of time.
>
> Make sure napi is scheduled subsequent to each napi_enable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Looks good to me.
Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-06 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-04 0:48 [PATCH] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call Bruce Rogers
2010-06-06 9:40 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2010-06-14 20:44 ` Bruce Rogers
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