netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 01/10] ionic: minimal work with 0 budget

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 14:09:35 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@....com>
Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, <brett.creeley@....com>, <drivers@...sando.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 01/10] ionic: minimal work with 0 budget

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 16:57:16 -0800 Shannon Nelson wrote:
> We should be doing as little as possible besides freeing Tx
> space when our napi routines are called with budget of 0, so
> jump out before doing anything besides Tx cleaning.
> 
> See commit afbed3f74830 ("net/mlx5e: do as little as possible in napi
> poll when budget is 0") for more info.

Unfortunately to commit you quote proves that this is a real bug which
can crash a non trivial number of machines if kernel printks meet an XDP
workload :( This really should go to net.