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[1/2] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

Message ID 201007031232.56510.rusty@rustcorp.com.au
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Rusty Russell July 3, 2010, 2:32 a.m. UTC
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

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;

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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David Miller July 3, 2010, 5:29 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:32:55 +1000

> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> 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;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .34.x

Applied.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 06c30df..85615a3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -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))