From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kstailey@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:01:19 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210.110119.226784284.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110210175725.GA9674@redhat.com>
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:57:26 +0200
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:32:50PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers@novell.com>
>>
>> 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>
>> Cc: stable@kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> Rusty, so this is 2.6.38 material - you'll send this to Linus? Or DaveM?
Don't worry I'll apply this to net-2.6, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 2:02 [PATCH] virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call Rusty Russell
2011-02-10 17:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-02-10 19:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-10 19:03 ` David Miller
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