From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com>,
jgross@suse.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kamatam@amazon.com, aliguori@amazon.com, guruanb@amazon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 10:08:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e81a8a0a-5364-433b-3c9b-93d6b1680a89@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486493941-15696-1-git-send-email-vineethp@amazon.com>
On 02/07/2017 01:59 PM, Vineeth Remanan Pillai wrote:
> The commit 90c311b0eeea ("xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network
> stress and OOM") caused the refill timer to be triggerred almost on
> all invocations of xennet_alloc_rx_buffers for certain workloads.
> This reworks the fix by reverting to the old behaviour and taking into
> consideration the skb allocation failure. Refill timer is now triggered
> on insufficient requests or skb allocation failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com>
> Fixes: 90c311b0eeea (xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and OOM)
> Reported-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-08 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-07 18:59 [PATCH] xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2017-02-08 15:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-02-09 21:34 ` David Miller
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