Re: [PATCH for-2.6.35] virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:03:16 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:13:49PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > -		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
> > +		kfree_skb(skb);
> > +		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> 
> If we do so, let's increment the dropped counter and/or error counter?

Yep, here's the extra change:

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -571,14 +571,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_
 	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
 	if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) {
 		if (net_ratelimit()) {
-			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM))
+			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) {
 				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
 					 "TX queue failure: out of memory\n");
-			else
+			} else {
+				dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
 				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
 					 "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n",
 					 capacity);
 		}
+		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
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