Posting messages to the host can fail because of transient resource
related failures. Correctly deal with these failures and increase the
number of attempts to post the message before giving up.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hv/connection.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
index ae22e3c..16c2ccb 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
@@ -427,10 +427,17 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen)
* insufficient resources. Retry the operation a couple of
* times before giving up.
*/
- while (retries < 3) {
- ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
- if (ret != HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS)
+ while (retries < 10) {
+ ret = hv_post_message(conn_id, 1, buffer, buflen);
+
+ switch (ret) {
+ case HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFERS:
+ case -ENOMEM:
+ break;
+ default:
return ret;
+ }
+
retries++;
msleep(100);
}
--
1.7.4.1
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