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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2014-03-14 23:48:28 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-17 15:47:22 -0400
commitb6bacd550c33124ea76291bd84ac42c8d30767eb (patch)
tree19a5fb4f432141125a0bbc16254f8e83b57f3645 /net/core
parentff6076314339e079806d9d2f3de9c9b768e94db1 (diff)
netpoll: Don't drop all received packets.
Change the strategy of netpoll from dropping all packets received during netpoll_poll_dev to calling napi poll with a budget of 0 (to avoid processing drivers rx queue), and to ignore packets received with netif_rx (those will safely be placed on the backlog queue). All of the netpoll supporting drivers have been reviewed to ensure either thay use netif_rx or that a budget of 0 is supported by their napi poll routine and that a budget of 0 will not process the drivers rx queues. Not dropping packets makes NETPOLL_RX_DROP unnecesary so it is removed. npinfo->rx_flags is removed as rx_flags with just the NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED flag becomes just a redundant mirror of list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np). Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c17
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index ef83a2530e98..793dc04d2f19 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ static atomic_t trapped;
51DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(netpoll_srcu); 51DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(netpoll_srcu);
52 52
53#define USEC_PER_POLL 50 53#define USEC_PER_POLL 50
54#define NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED 1
55#define NETPOLL_RX_DROP 2
56 54
57#define MAX_SKB_SIZE \ 55#define MAX_SKB_SIZE \
58 (sizeof(struct ethhdr) + \ 56 (sizeof(struct ethhdr) + \
@@ -193,7 +191,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
193{ 191{
194 const struct net_device_ops *ops; 192 const struct net_device_ops *ops;
195 struct netpoll_info *ni = rcu_dereference_bh(dev->npinfo); 193 struct netpoll_info *ni = rcu_dereference_bh(dev->npinfo);
196 int budget = 16; 194 bool rx_processing = netpoll_rx_processing(ni);
195 int budget = rx_processing? 16 : 0;
197 196
198 /* Don't do any rx activity if the dev_lock mutex is held 197 /* Don't do any rx activity if the dev_lock mutex is held
199 * the dev_open/close paths use this to block netpoll activity 198 * the dev_open/close paths use this to block netpoll activity
@@ -207,8 +206,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
207 return; 206 return;
208 } 207 }
209 208
210 ni->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_DROP; 209 if (rx_processing)
211 atomic_inc(&trapped); 210 atomic_inc(&trapped);
212 211
213 ops = dev->netdev_ops; 212 ops = dev->netdev_ops;
214 if (!ops->ndo_poll_controller) { 213 if (!ops->ndo_poll_controller) {
@@ -221,8 +220,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
221 220
222 poll_napi(dev, budget); 221 poll_napi(dev, budget);
223 222
224 atomic_dec(&trapped); 223 if (rx_processing)
225 ni->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_DROP; 224 atomic_dec(&trapped);
226 225
227 up(&ni->dev_lock); 226 up(&ni->dev_lock);
228 227
@@ -1050,7 +1049,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp)
1050 goto out; 1049 goto out;
1051 } 1050 }
1052 1051
1053 npinfo->rx_flags = 0;
1054 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&npinfo->rx_np); 1052 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&npinfo->rx_np);
1055 1053
1056 spin_lock_init(&npinfo->rx_lock); 1054 spin_lock_init(&npinfo->rx_lock);
@@ -1076,7 +1074,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp)
1076 1074
1077 if (np->rx_skb_hook) { 1075 if (np->rx_skb_hook) {
1078 spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); 1076 spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
1079 npinfo->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED;
1080 list_add_tail(&np->rx, &npinfo->rx_np); 1077 list_add_tail(&np->rx, &npinfo->rx_np);
1081 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); 1078 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
1082 } 1079 }
@@ -1258,8 +1255,6 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
1258 if (!list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np)) { 1255 if (!list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np)) {
1259 spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); 1256 spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
1260 list_del(&np->rx); 1257 list_del(&np->rx);
1261 if (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np))
1262 npinfo->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED;
1263 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags); 1258 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
1264 } 1259 }
1265 1260