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virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

PATCH Applied Rusty Russell 2 participants 4 messages Jul 3, 2010

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PATCH 1/2 virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>

We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work, and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;

---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/net/virtio_net.c +3 -4
index 06c30df..85615a3 100644
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
 static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	int err;
-	bool oom = false;
+	bool oom;
 
 	do {
 		if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
@@ -426,10 +426,9 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
 		else
 			err = add_recvbuf_small(vi, gfp);
 
-		if (err < 0) {
-			oom = true;
+		oom = err == -ENOMEM;
+		if (err < 0)
 			break;
-		}
 		++vi->num;
 	} while (err > 0);
 	if (unlikely(vi->num > vi->max))
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PATCH 2/2 virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx

virtio net will never try to overflow the TX ring, so the only reason add_buf may fail is out of memory. Thus, we can not stop the device until some request completes - there's no guarantee anything at all is outstanding.

Make the error message clearer as well: error here does not indicate queue full.

---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
drivers/net/virtio_net.c +13 -8
@@ -562,7 +562,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_
 	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int capacity;
 
-again:
 	/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
 	free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
 
@@ -571,14 +570,20 @@ again:
 
 	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
 	if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) {
-		netif_stop_queue(dev);
-		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Unexpected full queue\n");
-		if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb(vi->svq))) {
-			virtqueue_disable_cb(vi->svq);
-			netif_start_queue(dev);
-			goto again;
+		if (net_ratelimit()) {
+			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) {
+				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
+					 "TX queue failure: out of memory\n");
+			} else {
+				dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
+				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
+					 "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n",
+					 capacity);
+			}
 		}
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 	virtqueue_kick(vi->svq);
 
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx

From: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:34:01 +1000

Quoted 11 lines

virtio net will never try to overflow the TX ring, so the only reason add_buf may fail is out of memory. Thus, we can not stop the device until some request completes - there's no guarantee anything at all is outstanding.

Make the error message clearer as well: error here does not indicate queue full.

Applied.

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In reply to Rusty Russell

From: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:32:55 +1000

Quoted 10 lines

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>

We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work, and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;

Applied.