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Message-ID: <ee87b2e4-de8c-7b9b-c4e5-854ffab2e554@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:24:05 +0100
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To: Remanan Pillai <vineethp@...0fcf3b67f557f68df1.ant.amazon.com>,
boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@...zon.com>, kamatam@...zon.com,
aliguori@...zon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and
OOM
On 13/01/17 18:55, Remanan Pillai wrote:
> From: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@...zon.com>
>
> During an OOM scenario, request slots could not be created as skb
> allocation fails. So the netback cannot pass in packets and netfront
> wrongly assumes that there is no more work to be done and it disables
> polling. This causes Rx to stall.
>
> The issue is with the retry logic which schedules the timer if the
> created slots are less than NET_RX_SLOTS_MIN. The count of new request
> slots to be pushed are calculated as a difference between new req_prod
> and rsp_cons which could be more than the actual slots, if there are
> unconsumed responses.
>
> The fix is to calculate the count of newly created slots as the
> difference between new req_prod and old req_prod.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vineethp@...zon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Thanks,
Juergen
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