Re: [PATCH net v3 2/2] xen-netback: napi: don't prematurely request a tx event

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-devel-
> bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Crossley
> Sent: 10 December 2013 17:47
> To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v3 2/2] xen-netback: napi: don't
> prematurely request a tx event
> 
> On 10/12/13 13:39, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > This patch changes the RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS in
> > xenvif_build_tx_gops to a check for RING_HAS_UNCONSUMED_REQUESTS
> as the
> > former call has the side effect of advancing the ring event pointer and
> > therefore inviting another interrupt from the frontend before the napi
> > poll has actually finished, thereby defeating the point of napi.
> Reported-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>

Apologies. Indeed I should have added that to my commit comment.

  Paul

> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |    2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-
> netback/netback.c
> > index 83b4e5b..fb512a9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> > @@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ static unsigned xenvif_tx_build_gops(struct
> xenvif *vif, int budget)
> >   			continue;
> >   		}
> >
> > -		RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS(&vif->tx,
> work_to_do);
> > +		work_to_do = RING_HAS_UNCONSUMED_REQUESTS(&vif-
> >tx);
> >   		if (!work_to_do)
> >   			break;
> >
> 
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