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[net-next,v2] xen-netback: Don't deschedule NAPI when carrier off

Message ID 1407758504-8150-1-git-send-email-zoltan.kiss@citrix.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Zoltan Kiss Aug. 11, 2014, 12:01 p.m. UTC
In the patch called "xen-netback: Turn off the carrier if the guest is not able
to receive" NAPI was descheduled when the carrier was set off. That's
not what most of the drivers do, and we don't have any specific reason to do so
as well, so revert that change.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
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v2: delete spurious space

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Comments

Wei Liu Aug. 11, 2014, 12:17 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:01:44PM +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> In the patch called "xen-netback: Turn off the carrier if the guest is not able
> to receive" NAPI was descheduled when the carrier was set off. That's
> not what most of the drivers do, and we don't have any specific reason to do so
> as well, so revert that change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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David Miller Aug. 11, 2014, 9:08 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:01:44 +0100

> In the patch called "xen-netback: Turn off the carrier if the guest is not able
> to receive" NAPI was descheduled when the carrier was set off. That's
> not what most of the drivers do, and we don't have any specific reason to do so
> as well, so revert that change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>

Applied, thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index 48a55cd..bfd10cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -78,12 +78,8 @@  int xenvif_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 	/* This vif is rogue, we pretend we've there is nothing to do
 	 * for this vif to deschedule it from NAPI. But this interface
 	 * will be turned off in thread context later.
-	 * Also, if a guest doesn't post enough slots to receive data on one of
-	 * its queues, the carrier goes down and NAPI is descheduled here so
-	 * the guest can't send more packets until it's ready to receive.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(queue->vif->disabled ||
-		     !netif_carrier_ok(queue->vif->dev))) {
+	if (unlikely(queue->vif->disabled)) {
 		napi_complete(napi);
 		return 0;
 	}