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authorVineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@amazon.com>2017-02-07 18:59:01 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-07-21 07:42:16 +0200
commit21f79ae43fd2d498847ff82161027a62a1269926 (patch)
tree06f14b3b08da68f6095375e47ee9054c40953b4a /drivers
parentf0cd77ded5127168b1b83ca2f366ee17e9c0586f (diff)
xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress
commit 538d92912d3190a1dd809233a0d57277459f37b2 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netfront.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 599cf5090030..cd442e46afb4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ static void xennet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct netfront_queue *queue)
{
RING_IDX req_prod = queue->rx.req_prod_pvt;
int notify;
+ int err = 0;
if (unlikely(!netif_carrier_ok(queue->info->netdev)))
return;
@@ -295,8 +296,10 @@ static void xennet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct netfront_queue *queue)
struct xen_netif_rx_request *req;
skb = xennet_alloc_one_rx_buffer(queue);
- if (!skb)
+ if (!skb) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
break;
+ }
id = xennet_rxidx(req_prod);
@@ -320,8 +323,13 @@ static void xennet_alloc_rx_buffers(struct netfront_queue *queue)
queue->rx.req_prod_pvt = req_prod;
- /* Not enough requests? Try again later. */
- if (req_prod - queue->rx.sring->req_prod < NET_RX_SLOTS_MIN) {
+ /* Try again later if there are not enough requests or skb allocation
+ * failed.
+ * Enough requests is quantified as the sum of newly created slots and
+ * the unconsumed slots at the backend.
+ */
+ if (req_prod - queue->rx.rsp_cons < NET_RX_SLOTS_MIN ||
+ unlikely(err)) {
mod_timer(&queue->rx_refill_timer, jiffies + (HZ/10));
return;
}