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Message-Id: <4C16404102000048000980A8@sinclair.provo.novell.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:44:17 -0600 From: "Bruce Rogers" <brogers@...ell.com> To: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add schedule check to napi_enable call >>> On 6/6/2010 at 03:40 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Bruce Rogers <brogers@...ell.com> wrote: >> Please consider this patch for the 2.6.32, 2.6.33, and 2.6.34 stable trees > as well as current development trees. (I've only tested on 2.6.32 however) >> >> virtio_net: Add schedule check to napi_enable call >> Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would >> stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any >> problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods >> of time. >> >> Make sure napi is scheduled subsequent to each napi_enable. >> >> Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@...ell.com> >> Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@...e.de> >> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> >> Cc: stable@...nel.org > > Looks good to me. > > Thanks! Thanks for the review. We are hoping to get this into our 2.6.32 based sle11 sp1 maintenance update. Are there any concerns with this patch? Bruce -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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