netdev - [PATCH net-next 04/16] ixgbe: Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0

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Message-ID: <87eh24z35y.fsf_-_@xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:00:41 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 04/16] ixgbe: Don't receive packets when the napi budget == 0


Processing any incoming packets with a with a napi budget of 0
is incorrect driver behavior.

This matters as netpoll will shortly call drivers with a budget of 0
to avoid receive packet processing happening in hard irq context.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 851c41377b47..04b8f0a5b0ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -2076,7 +2076,7 @@ static int ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector,
 #endif /* IXGBE_FCOE */
 	u16 cleaned_count = ixgbe_desc_unused(rx_ring);
 
-	do {
+	while (likely(total_rx_packets < budget)) {
 		union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc *rx_desc;
 		struct sk_buff *skb;
 
@@ -2151,7 +2151,7 @@ static int ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector,
 
 		/* update budget accounting */
 		total_rx_packets++;
-	} while (likely(total_rx_packets < budget));
+	}
 
 	u64_stats_update_begin(&rx_ring->syncp);
 	rx_ring->stats.packets += total_rx_packets;
-- 
1.7.5.4

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