[PATCH net v2 7/9] gve: disable NAPI when registering XSK pools in QPL mode
From: Joshua Washington
Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 15:47:50 EST
As a result of QPL modes not posting XSK buffers directly to the NIC,
they do not need to recreate queues or re-post DMA buffers.
However, traffic should still be quiesced because both the driver and
the XDP redirect stack must have the same knowledge about whether a
given packet is being processed with AF_XDP zero-copy enabled or not.
GVE in QPL mode does not current respect this, which could lead to a
race condition between packet processing and the XSK_BUFF_POOL memory
model registration.
Quiesce traffic by disabling the NAPI while the XSK_BUFF_POOL memory
model is being registered with the kernel.
Fixes: fd8e40321a12 ("gve: Add AF_XDP zero-copy support for GQI-QPL format")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- newly introduced
---
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
index 49ae2b8c6a27..f2bd4011de23 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
@@ -1626,6 +1626,40 @@ static int gve_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, int n,
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
+static void gve_disable_xsk_napis(struct gve_priv *priv, u16 qid)
+{
+ struct napi_struct *napi_rx, *napi_tx;
+ u16 tx_qid;
+
+ napi_rx = &priv->ntfy_blocks[priv->rx[qid].ntfy_id].napi;
+ napi_disable_locked(napi_rx);
+
+ tx_qid = gve_xdp_tx_queue_id(priv, qid);
+ napi_tx = &priv->ntfy_blocks[priv->tx[tx_qid].ntfy_id].napi;
+ napi_disable_locked(napi_tx);
+}
+
+static void gve_enable_xsk_napis(struct gve_priv *priv, u16 qid)
+{
+ struct napi_struct *napi_rx, *napi_tx;
+ u16 tx_qid;
+
+ napi_rx = &priv->ntfy_blocks[priv->rx[qid].ntfy_id].napi;
+ napi_enable_locked(napi_rx);
+
+ tx_qid = gve_xdp_tx_queue_id(priv, qid);
+ napi_tx = &priv->ntfy_blocks[priv->tx[tx_qid].ntfy_id].napi;
+ napi_enable_locked(napi_tx);
+
+ if (gve_is_gqi(priv)) {
+ if (gve_rx_work_pending(&priv->rx[qid]))
+ napi_schedule(napi_rx);
+
+ if (gve_tx_clean_pending(priv, &priv->tx[tx_qid]))
+ napi_schedule(napi_tx);
+ }
+}
+
static int gve_xsk_pool_enable(struct net_device *dev,
struct xsk_buff_pool *pool,
u16 qid)
@@ -1655,7 +1689,14 @@ static int gve_xsk_pool_enable(struct net_device *dev,
return 0;
if (gve_is_qpl(priv)) {
+ gve_disable_xsk_napis(priv, qid);
+
err = gve_reg_xsk_pool(priv, dev, pool, qid);
+ /* Make sure it is visible to the workers on datapath */
+ smp_mb();
+
+ gve_enable_xsk_napis(priv, qid);
+
if (err)
goto err_xsk_pool_dma_mapped;
} else {
--
2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog