[PATCH for-2.6.35] virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Jun 10 2010 - 11:23:19 EST


We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf
returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of
memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work,
and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM;

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Rusty, please review the following patch for 2.6.35.

drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +++----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 06c30df..85615a3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
{
int err;
- bool oom = false;
+ bool oom;

do {
if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
@@ -426,10 +426,9 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp)
else
err = add_recvbuf_small(vi, gfp);

- if (err < 0) {
- oom = true;
+ oom = err == -ENOMEM;
+ if (err < 0)
break;
- }
++vi->num;
} while (err > 0);
if (unlikely(vi->num > vi->max))
--
1.7.1.12.g42b7f
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