Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: add missing virtqueue kick when flushing packets

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 11:27:21 EST


From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:58:25 +0800

> We tends to batch submitting packets during XDP_TX. This requires to
> kick virtqueue after a batch, we tried to do it through
> xdp_do_flush_map() which only makes sense for devmap not XDP_TX. So
> explicitly kick the virtqueue in this case.
>
> Reported-by: Kimitoshi Takahashi <ktaka@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Kimitoshi Takahashi <ktaka@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 186b3c998c50 ("virtio-net: support XDP_REDIRECT")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jason.