We currently fill all of RX ring, then add_buf returns ENOSPC, which gets mis-detected as an out of memory condition and causes us to reschedule the work, and so on forever. Fix this by oom = err == -ENOMEM; Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Rusty, please review the following patch for 2.6.35. drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 06c30df..85615a3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp) static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp) { int err; - bool oom = false; + bool oom; do { if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) @@ -426,10 +426,9 @@ static bool try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp) else err = add_recvbuf_small(vi, gfp); - if (err < 0) { - oom = true; + oom = err == -ENOMEM; + if (err < 0) break; - } ++vi->num; } while (err > 0); if (unlikely(vi->num > vi->max)) -- 1.7.1.12.g42b7f _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization