[PATCH 5.10 090/121] igb: fix netpoll exit with traffic

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Nov 29 2021 - 18:05:21 EST


From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit eaeace60778e524a2820d0c0ad60bf80289e292c ]

Oleksandr brought a bug report where netpoll causes trace
messages in the log on igb.

Danielle brought this back up as still occurring, so we'll try
again.

[22038.710800] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[22038.710801] igb_poll+0x0/0x1440 [igb] exceeded budget in poll
[22038.710802] WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 40362 at net/core/netpoll.c:155 netpoll_poll_dev+0x18a/0x1a0

As Alex suggested, change the driver to return work_done at the
exit of napi_poll, which should be safe to do in this driver
because it is not polling multiple queues in this single napi
context (multiple queues attached to one MSI-X vector). Several
other drivers contain the same simple sequence, so I hope
this will not create new problems.

Fixes: 16eb8815c235 ("igb: Refactor clean_rx_irq to reduce overhead and improve performance")
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123204000.1597971-1-jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index e24fb122c03a2..d5432d1448c05 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -8032,7 +8032,7 @@ static int igb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
if (likely(napi_complete_done(napi, work_done)))
igb_ring_irq_enable(q_vector);

- return min(work_done, budget - 1);
+ return work_done;
}

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