Re: [PATCH v2] xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and OOM

[Vineeth Remanan Pillai]

On 01/30/2017 08:47 AM, Vineeth Remanan Pillai wrote:
> On 01/29/2017 03:09 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > There are couple of problems with this patch.
> > 1. The 'if' clause now evaluates to true on pretty much every call to 
> > xennet_alloc_rx_buffers().
> Thanks for catching this. In my testing I did not notice this - mostly 
> because of the nature of the workload in my testing.
I am working on a patch to revert to the old behavior and solve the Rx 
stall issue by scheduling the timer if any of the following
conditions are true:
 - unconsumed requests + new requests < NET_RX_SLOTS_MIN (old behavior)
 - skb allocations fail

Will send out the patch by next week after I can do some testing.

Thanks,
Vineeth