On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 08:15:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Commit 55257d72bd1c51f25106350f4983ec19f62ed1fa (virtio-net: fill only rx queues
> which are being used) tries to refill on demand when changing the number of
> channels by call try_refill_recv() directly, this may race:
>
> - the refill work who may do the refill in the same time
> - the try_refill_recv() called in bh since napi was not disabled
>
> Which may led guest complain during setting channels:
>
> virtio_net virtio0: input.1:id 0 is not a head!
>
> Solve this issue by scheduling a refill work which can guarantee the
> serialization of refill.
>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 +----
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index c9e0038..47b4882 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -901,7 +901,6 @@ static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
> struct scatterlist sg;
> struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq s;
> struct net_device *dev = vi->dev;
> - int i;
>
> if (!vi->has_cvq || !virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ))
> return 0;
> @@ -915,10 +914,8 @@ static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
> queue_pairs);
> return -EINVAL;
> } else {
> - for (i = vi->curr_queue_pairs; i < queue_pairs; i++)
> - if (!try_fill_recv(&vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
> - schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> vi->curr_queue_pairs = queue_pairs;
> + schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
> }
>
> return 0;
> --
> 1.7.1
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