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Commit b6bacd55 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ff607631

include/linux/netpoll.h

+1 −2
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ struct netpoll { 
struct netpoll_info {

	atomic_t refcnt;



	unsigned long rx_flags;

	spinlock_t rx_lock;

	struct semaphore dev_lock;

	struct list_head rx_np; /* netpolls that registered an rx_skb_hook */
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ static inline bool netpoll_rx_on(struct sk_buff *skb) 
{

	struct netpoll_info *npinfo = rcu_dereference_bh(skb->dev->npinfo);



	return npinfo && (netpoll_rx_processing(npinfo) || npinfo->rx_flags);

	return npinfo && netpoll_rx_processing(npinfo);

}



static inline bool netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)

net/core/netpoll.c

+6 −11
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ static atomic_t trapped; 
DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(netpoll_srcu);



#define USEC_PER_POLL	50

#define NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED  1

#define NETPOLL_RX_DROP     2



#define MAX_SKB_SIZE							\

	(sizeof(struct ethhdr) +					\
@@ -193,7 +191,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) 
{

	const struct net_device_ops *ops;

	struct netpoll_info *ni = rcu_dereference_bh(dev->npinfo);

	int budget = 16;

	bool rx_processing = netpoll_rx_processing(ni);

	int budget = rx_processing? 16 : 0;



	/* Don't do any rx activity if the dev_lock mutex is held

	 * the dev_open/close paths use this to block netpoll activity
@@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) 
		return;

	}



	ni->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_DROP;

	if (rx_processing)

		atomic_inc(&trapped);



	ops = dev->netdev_ops;
@@ -221,8 +220,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) 


	poll_napi(dev, budget);



	if (rx_processing)

		atomic_dec(&trapped);

	ni->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_DROP;



	up(&ni->dev_lock);
@@ -1050,7 +1049,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp) 
			goto out;

		}



		npinfo->rx_flags = 0;

		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&npinfo->rx_np);



		spin_lock_init(&npinfo->rx_lock);
@@ -1076,7 +1074,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp) 


	if (np->rx_skb_hook) {

		spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);

		npinfo->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED;

		list_add_tail(&np->rx, &npinfo->rx_np);

		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);

	}
@@ -1258,8 +1255,6 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np) 
	if (!list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np)) {

		spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);

		list_del(&np->rx);

		if (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np))

			npinfo->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED;

		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);

	}