Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/2] drivers: net: virtio_net: Implement

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 03:45:13PM -0300, jcfaracco@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Driver virtio_net is not handling error events for TX provided by 
> dev_watchdog. This event is reached when transmission queue is having 
> problems to transmit packets. To enable it, driver should have 
> .ndo_tx_timeout implemented. This serie has two commits:
> 
> In the past, we implemented a function to recover driver state when this
> kind of event happens, but the structure was to complex for virtio_net
> that moment.

It's more that it was missing a bunch of locks.

> Alternativelly, this skeleton should be enough for now.
>
> For further details, see thread:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/23/691
> 
> Patch 1/2:
>   Add statistic field for TX timeout events.
> 
> Patch 2/2:
>   Implement a skeleton function to debug TX timeout events.
> 
> Julio Faracco (2):
>   drivers: net: virtio_net: Add tx_timeout stats field
>   drivers: net: virtio_net: Add tx_timeout function
> 
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
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