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Message-ID: <20250528170442.160f6f99@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:04:42 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@...gle.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
almasrymina@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com, jdamato@...tly.com,
mkarsten@...terloo.ca, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: stop napi kthreads when THREADED napi
is disabled
On Wed, 21 May 2025 15:50:19 -0700 Samiullah Khawaja wrote:
> > Just to be clear - the stopping of the thread has to be after the
> > proposed loop, so kthread_should_stop() does not come into play.
> Wait, the thread will unset STATE_THREADED if kthread_should_stop is
> true. right? Otherwise how would thread know that it has to unset the
> bit and stop?
>
> As I understand, we should be doing something like following:
>
> while (true) {
> state = READ_ONCE()
> can_stop = false;
>
> if (kthread_should_stop) {
> if (SCHED_THREADED || !SCHED) {
> state &= !THREADED
> } else {
> msleep(1);
> continue;
> }
>
> if (try_cmpxchg) {
> can_stop = true;
> if (!SCHED_THREADED)
> break;
> }
> }
>
> if (SCHED_THREADED)
> poll()
>
> if (can_stop))
> break;
> }
So moving the stopping logic into the polling thread? I don't think this
helps anything.
Once we unset the THREADED bit we should wait for the thread to clear
SCHED_THREADED (before trying to stop it). SCHED_THREADED going away
is our signal that it's safe to reap the thread.
If you're afraid that the thread will not terminate (because packets
continue to flow in) - we probably want something like:
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 2b514d95c528..33d4b726395b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7548,6 +7548,13 @@ static void napi_threaded_poll_loop(struct napi_struct *napi)
if (!repoll)
break;
+ /* Thread is going away, give up the ownership */
+ if (!likely(READ_ONCE(napi->state) & NAPIF_STATE_THREADED)) {
+ clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED, &napi->state);
+ __napi_schedule(napi);
+ break;
+ }
+
rcu_softirq_qs_periodic(last_qs);
cond_resched();
}
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