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Message-ID: <20230413070408.630fa731@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 07:04:08 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc: mst@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/2] virtio-net: don't busy poll for cvq
command
On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:40:25 +0800 Jason Wang wrote:
> The code used to busy poll for cvq command which turns out to have
> several side effects:
>
> 1) infinite poll for buggy devices
> 2) bad interaction with scheduler
>
> So this series tries to use sleep instead of busy polling. In this
> version, I take a step back: the hardening part is not implemented and
> leave for future investigation. We use to aggree to use interruptible
> sleep but it doesn't work for a general workqueue.
CC: netdev missing?
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