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authorZoltan Kiss2014-02-04 19:54:37 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller2014-02-05 16:24:08 -0800
commit9ab9831b4c59d379a17f92a6157c7e921811dea2 (patch)
treedb1279d7fcd1847180cc22dc15a809de048509f8 /drivers/net/xen-netback
parentbce3ea81d5b2a33ed0e275d58a45f10ce95cbd50 (diff)
xen-netback: Fix Rx stall due to race condition
The recent patch to fix receive side flow control (11b57f90257c1d6a91cee720151b69e0c2020cf6: xen-netback: stop vif thread spinning if frontend is unresponsive) solved the spinning thread problem, however caused an another one. The receive side can stall, if: - [THREAD] xenvif_rx_action sets rx_queue_stopped to true - [INTERRUPT] interrupt happens, and sets rx_event to true - [THREAD] then xenvif_kthread sets rx_event to false - [THREAD] rx_work_todo doesn't return true anymore Also, if interrupt sent but there is still no room in the ring, it take quite a long time until xenvif_rx_action realize it. This patch ditch that two variable, and rework rx_work_todo. If the thread finds it can't fit more skb's into the ring, it saves the last slot estimation into rx_last_skb_slots, otherwise it's kept as 0. Then rx_work_todo will check if: - there is something to send to the ring (like before) - there is space for the topmost packet in the queue I think that's more natural and optimal thing to test than two bool which are set somewhere else. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/xen-netback')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h6
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c16
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h b/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
index 4c76bcb9a879..ae413a2cbee7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
@@ -143,11 +143,7 @@ struct xenvif {
char rx_irq_name[IFNAMSIZ+4]; /* DEVNAME-rx */
struct xen_netif_rx_back_ring rx;
struct sk_buff_head rx_queue;
- bool rx_queue_stopped;
- /* Set when the RX interrupt is triggered by the frontend.
- * The worker thread may need to wake the queue.
- */
- bool rx_event;
+ RING_IDX rx_last_skb_slots;
/* This array is allocated seperately as it is large */
struct gnttab_copy *grant_copy_op;
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index b9de31ea7fc4..7669d49a67e2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ static irqreturn_t xenvif_rx_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
struct xenvif *vif = dev_id;
- vif->rx_event = true;
xenvif_kick_thread(vif);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
index 6b62c3eb8e18..e5284bca2d90 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -476,7 +476,6 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif *vif)
unsigned long offset;
struct skb_cb_overlay *sco;
bool need_to_notify = false;
- bool ring_full = false;
struct netrx_pending_operations npo = {
.copy = vif->grant_copy_op,
@@ -486,7 +485,7 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif *vif)
skb_queue_head_init(&rxq);
while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&vif->rx_queue)) != NULL) {
- int max_slots_needed;
+ RING_IDX max_slots_needed;
int i;
/* We need a cheap worse case estimate for the number of
@@ -509,9 +508,10 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif *vif)
if (!xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available(vif, max_slots_needed)) {
skb_queue_head(&vif->rx_queue, skb);
need_to_notify = true;
- ring_full = true;
+ vif->rx_last_skb_slots = max_slots_needed;
break;
- }
+ } else
+ vif->rx_last_skb_slots = 0;
sco = (struct skb_cb_overlay *)skb->cb;
sco->meta_slots_used = xenvif_gop_skb(skb, &npo);
@@ -522,8 +522,6 @@ static void xenvif_rx_action(struct xenvif *vif)
BUG_ON(npo.meta_prod > ARRAY_SIZE(vif->meta));
- vif->rx_queue_stopped = !npo.copy_prod && ring_full;
-
if (!npo.copy_prod)
goto done;
@@ -1473,8 +1471,8 @@ static struct xen_netif_rx_response *make_rx_response(struct xenvif *vif,
static inline int rx_work_todo(struct xenvif *vif)
{
- return (!skb_queue_empty(&vif->rx_queue) && !vif->rx_queue_stopped) ||
- vif->rx_event;
+ return !skb_queue_empty(&vif->rx_queue) &&
+ xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available(vif, vif->rx_last_skb_slots);
}
static inline int tx_work_todo(struct xenvif *vif)
@@ -1560,8 +1558,6 @@ int xenvif_kthread(void *data)
if (!skb_queue_empty(&vif->rx_queue))
xenvif_rx_action(vif);
- vif->rx_event = false;
-
if (skb_queue_empty(&vif->rx_queue) &&
netif_queue_stopped(vif->dev))
xenvif_start_queue(vif);