netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: add schedule check to napi_enable call in refill

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Message-Id: <4D52EE9102000048000A9BA4@novprvoes0310.provo.novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:44:17 -0700
From:	"Bruce Rogers" <brogers@...ell.com>
To:	<virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Ken Stailey" <kstailey@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: add schedule check to napi_enable call
 in refill_work

 >>> On 2/9/2011 at 06:31 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote: 
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:59:25 am Ken Stailey wrote:
>> Justification:
>> 
>> Impact: Under heavy network I/O load virtio-net driver crashes making VM 
> guest unusable.
> 
> Hmm, this went badly wrong.  I acked this patch, and it was mailed to
> netdev six months ago.
> 
> Bruce's patch used spaces instead of tabs, but that should not have caused
> it to be dropped.  I've taken that and ported it forwards, will repost now.
> 
> Thanks for picking this up off the floor!
> Rusty.

Thanks for taking care of that!

Bruce

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