From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:01:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110210.110119.226784284.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201102101232.50526.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20110210175725.GA9674@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kstailey@yahoo.com To: mst@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51973 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754833Ab1BJTAn (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:00:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110210175725.GA9674@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 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" >> >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch >> Cc: stable@kernel.org >> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell > > 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.