netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] virtio_net: Add timeout handler to avoid kernel hang

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:29:28 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Heng Qi <hengqi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...ux.dev>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...el.com>, mst@...hat.com,
	jasowang@...hat.com, xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] virtio_net: Add timeout handler to avoid kernel hang

> > > >       while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&
> > > > -           !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
> > > > +           !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) {
> > > > +        if (timeout)
> > > > +            timeout--;
> > > This is not really a timeout, just a loop counter. 200 iterations could
> > > be a very short time on reasonable H/W. I guess this avoid the soft
> > > lockup, but possibly (likely?) breaks the functionality when we need to
> > > loop for some non negligible time.
> > > 
> > > I fear we need a more complex solution, as mentioned by Micheal in the
> > > thread you quoted.
> > 
> > Got it. I also look forward to the more complex solution to this problem.
> 
> Can we add a device capability (new feature bit) such as ctrq_wait_timeout
> to get a reasonable timeout？

The usual solution to this is include/linux/iopoll.h. If you can sleep
read_poll_timeout() otherwise read_poll_timeout_atomic().

	Andrew