On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:52:11PM +0800, Qin Chuanyu wrote:
> On 2014/2/24 21:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:12:20PM +0800, Qin Chuanyu wrote:
> >>with vhost tx zero_copy, guest nic might get hang when host reserving
> >>skb in socket queue delivered by guest, the case has been solved in
> >>tun, it also been needed by bridge. This could easily happened when a
> >>LAST_ACK state tcp occuring between guest and host.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Chuanyu Qin <qinchuanyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Do you actually observe guest hang?
> >
> yes, guest nic could not xmit any more until the skb holded by host has
> been freed, the mainly reason is that though virtio-net could use vring
> desc out of order, but ubufs is been used by vhost in order. so only
> one skb could cause guest nic hang.
> >I would expect orphan frags in
> >__netif_receive_skb_core to be enough.
> >
> yes, it would be better. I would deliver another patch soon.
well __netif_receive_skb_core already calls orphan frags already.
What's left to do?
> >
> >>---
> >> net/bridge/br_input.c | 3 +++
> >> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c
> >>index 28d5446..744e27a 100644
> >>--- a/net/bridge/br_input.c
> >>+++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c
> >>@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ int br_handle_frame_finish(struct sk_buff *skb)
> >> br->dev->stats.multicast++;
> >> } else if ((dst = __br_fdb_get(br, dest, vid)) &&
> >> dst->is_local) {
> >>+ if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
> >>+ goto drop;
> >> skb2 = skb;
> >> /* Do not forward the packet since it's local. */
> >> skb = NULL;
> >>@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ int br_handle_frame_finish(struct sk_buff *skb)
> >> out:
> >> return 0;
> >> drop:
> >>+ skb_tx_error(skb);
> >> kfree_skb(skb);
> >> goto out;
> >> }
> >>--
> >>1.7.3.1.msysgit.0
> >
> >
>
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