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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>,
	jerry.lilijun@huawei.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, xudingke@huawei.com,
	brian.huangbin@huawei.com, chenchanghu@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7] vhost_net: avoid tx queue stuck when sendmsg fails
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 04:56:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210119045607-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210118143329.08cc14a6@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 02:33:29PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:46:20 +0800 wangyunjian wrote:
> > From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > 
> > Currently the driver doesn't drop a packet which can't be sent by tun
> > (e.g bad packet). In this case, the driver will always process the
> > same packet lead to the tx queue stuck.
> > 
> > To fix this issue:
> > 1. in the case of persistent failure (e.g bad packet), the driver
> >    can skip this descriptor by ignoring the error.
> > 2. in the case of transient failure (e.g -ENOBUFS, -EAGAIN and -ENOMEM),
> >    the driver schedules the worker to try again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> 
> Michael, LMK if you want to have a closer look otherwise I'll apply
> tomorrow.

Thanks for the reminder. Acked.

-- 
MST

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1610685980-38608-1-git-send-email-wangyunjian@huawei.com>
2021-01-15  6:05 ` [PATCH net-next v7] vhost_net: avoid tx queue stuck when sendmsg fails Jason Wang
2021-01-15 18:15   ` Willem de Bruijn
2021-01-19  9:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found] ` <20210118143329.08cc14a6@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
2021-01-19  9:56   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]

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