Re: netconsole deadlock with virtnet

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 2020/11/25 上午12:20, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:22:03 +0800 Jason Wang wrote:
>>>> Perhaps you need the trylock in virtnet_poll_tx()?
>>> That could work. Best if we used normal lock if !!budget, and trylock
>>> when budget is 0. But maybe that's too hairy.
>> If we use trylock, we probably lose(or delay) tx notification that may
>> have side effects to the stack.
> That's why I said only trylock with budget == 0. Only netpoll calls with
> budget == 0, AFAIK.


Oh right.

So I think maybe we can switch to use trylock when budget is zero and 
try to schedule another TX NAPI if we trylock fail.


>
>>> I'm assuming all this trickiness comes from virtqueue_get_buf() needing
>>> locking vs the TX path? It's pretty unusual for the completion path to
>>> need locking vs xmit path.
>> Two reasons for doing this:
>>
>> 1) For some historical reason, we try to free transmitted tx packets in
>> xmit (see free_old_xmit_skbs() in start_xmit()), we can probably remove
>> this if we remove the non tx interrupt mode.
>> 2) virtio core requires virtqueue_get_buf() to be synchronized with
>> virtqueue_add(), we probably can solve this but it requires some non
>> trivial refactoring in the virtio core
>>
>> Btw, have a quick search, there are several other drivers that uses tx
>> lock in the tx NAPI.
> Unless they do:
>
> 	netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL;
>
> they are all broken.


Yes.

Thanks