From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers@novell.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:48:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C07F8FF0200004800097554@sinclair.provo.novell.com> (raw)
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
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -388,6 +388,20 @@ static void skb_recv_done(struct virtque
}
}
+static void virtnet_napi_enable(struct virtnet_info *vi)
+{
+ napi_enable(&vi->napi);
+
+ /* If all buffers were filled by other side before we napi_enabled, we
+ * won't get another interrupt, so process any outstanding packets
+ * now. virtnet_poll wants re-enable the queue, so we disable here.
+ * We synchronize against interrupts via NAPI_STATE_SCHED */
+ if (napi_schedule_prep(&vi->napi)) {
+ vi->rvq->vq_ops->disable_cb(vi->rvq);
+ __napi_schedule(&vi->napi);
+ }
+}
+
static void refill_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi;
@@ -397,7 +411,7 @@ static void refill_work(struct work_stru
napi_disable(&vi->napi);
try_fill_recv(vi, GFP_KERNEL);
still_empty = (vi->num == 0);
- napi_enable(&vi->napi);
+ virtnet_napi_enable(vi);
/* In theory, this can happen: if we don't get any buffers in
* we will *never* try to fill again. */
@@ -589,16 +603,7 @@ static int virtnet_open(struct net_devic
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
- napi_enable(&vi->napi);
-
- /* If all buffers were filled by other side before we napi_enabled, we
- * won't get another interrupt, so process any outstanding packets
- * now. virtnet_poll wants re-enable the queue, so we disable here.
- * We synchronize against interrupts via NAPI_STATE_SCHED */
- if (napi_schedule_prep(&vi->napi)) {
- vi->rvq->vq_ops->disable_cb(vi->rvq);
- __napi_schedule(&vi->napi);
- }
+ virtnet_napi_enable(vi);
return 0;
}
next reply other threads:[~2010-06-04 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-04 0:48 Bruce Rogers [this message]
2010-06-06 9:40 ` [PATCH] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call Herbert Xu
2010-06-14 20:44 ` Bruce Rogers
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