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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-05-26 17:48:13 +1000 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> | 2008-05-30 22:07:21 -0400 |
| commit | 11a3a1546d0adc36485c2ad4af7ab950712df6ff (patch) | |
| tree | 337c1e4448c3999d739c91d2eefc9c7783d8cef1 /drivers | |
| parent | 7eb2e25112bf920bb0a4d1cca445f3d96874c25f (diff) | |
virtio: fix delayed xmit of packet and freeing of old packets.
Because we cache the last failed-to-xmit packet, if there are no
packets queued behind that one we may never send it (reproduced here
as TCP stalls, "cured" by an outgoing ping).
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index d50f4fe352b3..5450eac9e263 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ struct virtnet_info /* Number of input buffers, and max we've ever had. */ unsigned int num, max; + /* For cleaning up after transmission. */ + struct tasklet_struct tasklet; + /* Receive & send queues. */ struct sk_buff_head recv; struct sk_buff_head send; @@ -68,8 +71,13 @@ static void skb_xmit_done(struct virtqueue *svq) /* Suppress further interrupts. */ svq->vq_ops->disable_cb(svq); + /* We were waiting for more output buffers. */ netif_wake_queue(vi->dev); + + /* Make sure we re-xmit last_xmit_skb: if there are no more packets + * queued, start_xmit won't be called. */ + tasklet_schedule(&vi->tasklet); } static void receive_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, @@ -278,6 +286,18 @@ static int xmit_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct sk_buff *skb) return vi->svq->vq_ops->add_buf(vi->svq, sg, num, 0, skb); } +static void xmit_tasklet(unsigned long data) +{ + struct virtnet_info *vi = (void *)data; + + netif_tx_lock_bh(vi->dev); + if (vi->last_xmit_skb && xmit_skb(vi, vi->last_xmit_skb) == 0) { + vi->svq->vq_ops->kick(vi->svq); + vi->last_xmit_skb = NULL; + } + netif_tx_unlock_bh(vi->dev); +} + static int start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev); @@ -432,6 +452,8 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) skb_queue_head_init(&vi->recv); skb_queue_head_init(&vi->send); + tasklet_init(&vi->tasklet, xmit_tasklet, (unsigned long)vi); + err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { pr_debug("virtio_net: registering device failed\n"); |