Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio_net: enable tx interrupt

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Oct 14 2014 - 19:08:30 EST


On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:53:59AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> static void skb_xmit_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
> {
> struct virtnet_info *vi = vq->vdev->priv;
> + struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[vq2txq(vq)];
>
> - /* Suppress further interrupts. */
> - virtqueue_disable_cb(vq);
> -

One note here: current code seems racy because of doing
virtqueue_disable_cb from skb_xmit_done that I'm dropping here: there's
no guarantee we don't get an interrupt while tx ring is running, and if
that happens we can end up with interrupts disabled forever.

> - /* We were probably waiting for more output buffers. */
> - netif_wake_subqueue(vi->dev, vq2txq(vq));
> + if (napi_schedule_prep(&sq->napi)) {
> + __napi_schedule(&sq->napi);
> + }
> }
>
> static unsigned int mergeable_ctx_to_buf_truesize(unsigned long mrg_ctx)
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