On 7/20/23 1:38 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
Adding cond_resched() to the command waiting loop for a better
co-operation with the scheduler. This allows to give CPU a breath to
run other task(workqueue) instead of busy looping when preemption is
not allowed on a device whose CVQ might be slow.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 9f3b1d6ac33d..e7533f29b219 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2314,8 +2314,10 @@ static bool virtnet_send_command(struct virtnet_info *vi, u8 class, u8 cmd,
* into the hypervisor, so the request should be handled immediately.
*/
while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vi->cvq, &tmp) &&
- !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq))
+ !virtqueue_is_broken(vi->cvq)) {
+ cond_resched();
cpu_relax();
+ }
The cover letter suggests that this addresses the infinite poll for
buggy devices, but I don't see how that is resolved here. This should
make it a little nicer to the system, but it still is going to poll
forever on a device that has gone catatonic. Is there a reason that I'm
missing that we don't have a polling limit here?
sln
return vi->ctrl->status == VIRTIO_NET_OK;
}
--
2.39.3
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