netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio_net/virtio_ring: fix race in enable

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:10:52 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net/virtio_ring: fix race in enable_cb

On Monday 17 March 2008 17:30:44 Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > Are you seeing the "Unlikely: restart svq failed" message in the logs? 
> > If not, I don't think it can be this race.
>
> No, I dont see the message, but this message only happens for guest->host
> traffic in the xmit function.

Interesting you don't see this.  Or is it just on that load that you don't see 
it?

> I was fixing the poll function - which has no 
> printk.
> I added the disable_cb in the xmit function only  to adopt to changed
> enable_cb semantics.
>
> I double checked my theory with a printk in enable_cb. The more_used check
> was true several times for the receiving virtqueue.

Excellent, thanks.

I applied your patch, and have asked Linus to pull that and my other qeued 
virtio fixes.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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