similar to: [PATCH] virtio-net: add schedule check to napi_enable call in refill_work

Please consider this patch for the 2.6.32, 2.6.33, and 2.6.34 stable trees as well as current development trees. (I've only tested on 2.6.32 however) virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any problems in the driver while performing

Please consider this patch for the 2.6.32, 2.6.33, and 2.6.34 stable trees as well as current development trees. (I've only tested on 2.6.32 however) virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any problems in the driver while performing

From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers at novell.com> Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods of time. Make sure napi is scheduled subsequent to each napi_enable. Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers at

From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers at novell.com> Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods of time. Make sure napi is scheduled subsequent to each napi_enable. Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers at

I got the following oops during interface ifup. Unfortunately its not easily reproducable so I cant say for sure that my fix fixes this problem, but I am confident and I think its correct anyway: <2>kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:234! <4>illegal operation: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP <4>Modules linked in: <4>CPU: 0 Not tainted

I got the following oops during interface ifup. Unfortunately its not easily reproducable so I cant say for sure that my fix fixes this problem, but I am confident and I think its correct anyway: <2>kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:234! <4>illegal operation: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP <4>Modules linked in: <4>CPU: 0 Not tainted

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com> As of tx napi, device down (`ip link set dev $dev down`) hangs unless tx napi is enabled. Else napi_enable is not called, so napi_disable will spin on test_and_set_bit NAPI_STATE_SCHED. Only call napi_disable if tx napi is enabled. Fixes: 5a719c2552ca ("virtio-net: transmit napi") Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com> As of tx napi, device down (`ip link set dev $dev down`) hangs unless tx napi is enabled. Else napi_enable is not called, so napi_disable will spin on test_and_set_bit NAPI_STATE_SCHED. Only call napi_disable if tx napi is enabled. Fixes: 5a719c2552ca ("virtio-net: transmit napi") Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at

On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 12:55 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > On 12/27/2013 05:56 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 13:28 -0800, Michael Dalton wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> wrote: > >>> So there isn't a conflict with respect to locking. > >>> > >>> Is it problematic to

On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 12:55 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > On 12/27/2013 05:56 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 13:28 -0800, Michael Dalton wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> wrote: > >>> So there isn't a conflict with respect to locking. > >>> > >>> Is it problematic to

Fix theoretical races related to refill work: 1. After napi is disabled by ndo_stop, refill work can run and re-enable it. 2. Refill can get scheduled on many cpus in parallel. if this happens it will corrupt the vq linked list as there's no locking 3. refill work is cancelled after unregister netdev For small bufs this means it can alloc an skb for a device which is

Fix theoretical races related to refill work: 1. After napi is disabled by ndo_stop, refill work can run and re-enable it. 2. Refill can get scheduled on many cpus in parallel. if this happens it will corrupt the vq linked list as there's no locking 3. refill work is cancelled after unregister netdev For small bufs this means it can alloc an skb for a device which is

Fix theoretical races related to refill work: 1. After napi is disabled by ndo_stop, refill work can run and re-enable it. 2. Refill can reschedule itself, if this happens it can run after cancel_delayed_work_sync, and will access device after it is destroyed. As a solution, add flags to track napi state and to disable refill, and toggle them on start, stop and remove; check these flags

Fix theoretical races related to refill work: 1. After napi is disabled by ndo_stop, refill work can run and re-enable it. 2. Refill can reschedule itself, if this happens it can run after cancel_delayed_work_sync, and will access device after it is destroyed. As a solution, add flags to track napi state and to disable refill, and toggle them on start, stop and remove; check these flags

The current virtio_net driver has a startup race, which prevents any incoming traffic: If try_fill_recv submits buffers to the host system data might be filled in and an interrupt is sent, before napi_enable finishes. In that case the interrupt will kick skb_recv_done which will then call netif_rx_schedule. netif_rx_schedule checks, if NAPI_STATE_SCHED is set - which is not as we did not run

The current virtio_net driver has a startup race, which prevents any incoming traffic: If try_fill_recv submits buffers to the host system data might be filled in and an interrupt is sent, before napi_enable finishes. In that case the interrupt will kick skb_recv_done which will then call netif_rx_schedule. netif_rx_schedule checks, if NAPI_STATE_SCHED is set - which is not as we did not run

Hello Rusty, while implementing and testing virtio on s390 I found a problem in virtio_net: The current virtio_net driver has a startup race, which prevents any incoming traffic: If try_fill_recv submits buffers to the host system data might be filled in and an interrupt is sent, before napi_enable finishes. In that case the interrupt will kick skb_recv_done which will then call

Hello Rusty, while implementing and testing virtio on s390 I found a problem in virtio_net: The current virtio_net driver has a startup race, which prevents any incoming traffic: If try_fill_recv submits buffers to the host system data might be filled in and an interrupt is sent, before napi_enable finishes. In that case the interrupt will kick skb_recv_done which will then call

On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 04:10:11PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com> > > Convert virtio-net to a standard napi tx completion path. This enables > better TCP pacing using TCP small queues and increases single stream > throughput. > > The virtio-net driver currently cleans tx descriptors on transmission > of new packets in

Hi, I am trying to make a Linux filesystem appear case-insensitive and I got the idea that I could use a SAMBA loopback mount to do this. I almost succeeded on my first try but I ran into a snag I have no answer for yet. My setup involves sharing filesystem "/a" and then mounting it on "/b". I can use "ls -l" on the "/b" filesystem in a case-insensitive