netdev - [PATCH net 08/11] net: ena: remove ndo_poll

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Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:31:58 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Aviad Krawczyk <aviad.krawczyk@...wei.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Douglas Miller <dougmill@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Harish Patil <harish.patil@...ium.com>,
        Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@...ium.com>,
        Netanel Belgazal <netanel@...zon.com>,
        Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>,
        Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Saeed Bishara <saeedb@...zon.com>,
        Zorik Machulsky <zorik@...zon.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 08/11] net: ena: remove ndo_poll_controller

As diagnosed by Song Liu, ndo_poll_controller() can
be very dangerous on loaded hosts, since the cpu
calling ndo_poll_controller() might steal all NAPI
contexts (for all RX/TX queues of the NIC). This capture
can last for unlimited amount of time, since one
cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load.

ena uses NAPI for TX completions, so we better let core
networking stack call the napi->poll() to avoid the capture.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Netanel Belgazal <netanel@...zon.com>
Cc: Saeed Bishara <saeedb@...zon.com>
Cc: Zorik Machulsky <zorik@...zon.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 22 --------------------
 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
index 29b5774dd32d47e5ad2c43e78b599493f011d129..25621a218f20754c29963c7ded3075c0c89a232c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
@@ -2185,25 +2185,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t ena_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
-static void ena_netpoll(struct net_device *netdev)
-{
-	struct ena_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
-	int i;
-
-	/* Dont schedule NAPI if the driver is in the middle of reset
-	 * or netdev is down.
-	 */
-
-	if (!test_bit(ENA_FLAG_DEV_UP, &adapter->flags) ||
-	    test_bit(ENA_FLAG_TRIGGER_RESET, &adapter->flags))
-		return;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < adapter->num_queues; i++)
-		napi_schedule(&adapter->ena_napi[i].napi);
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER */
-
 static u16 ena_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			    struct net_device *sb_dev,
 			    select_queue_fallback_t fallback)
@@ -2369,9 +2350,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops ena_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_change_mtu		= ena_change_mtu,
 	.ndo_set_mac_address	= NULL,
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
-	.ndo_poll_controller	= ena_netpoll,
-#endif /* CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER */
 };
 
 static int ena_device_validate_params(struct ena_adapter *adapter,
-- 
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog