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

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:13:49 +0930

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:33:43 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > @@ -572,12 +571,14 @@ again:
> > > > 
> > > >  	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
> > > >  	if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) {
> > > > -		netif_stop_queue(dev);
> > > > -		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Unexpected full queue\n");
> > > > -		if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb(vi->svq))) {
> > > > -			virtqueue_disable_cb(vi->svq);
> > > > -			netif_start_queue(dev);
> > > > -			goto again;
> > > > +		if (net_ratelimit()) {
> > > > +			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM))
> > > > +				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
> > > > +					 "TX queue failure: out of memory\n");
> > > > +			else
> > > > +				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
> > > > +					 "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n",
> > > > +					 capacity);
...
> 
> Well, I only keep the existing behaviour around.

Actually, it *does* change behavior, as the comment indicates.  So let's
fix the whole thing.  AFAICT wth TX_BUSY we'll get called again RSN, and
that's not really useful for OOM.

This is what I have:

Subject: virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:20:41 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>

virtio net will never try to overflow the TX ring, so the only reason
add_buf may fail is out of memory. Thus, we can not stop the
device until some request completes - there's no guarantee anything
at all is outstanding.

Make the error message clearer as well: error here does not
indicate queue full.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]> (...and avoid TX_BUSY)
Cc: [email-masked]
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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
@@ -562,7 +562,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_
 	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int capacity;
 
-again:
 	/* Free up any pending old buffers before queueing new ones. */
 	free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
 
@@ -571,14 +570,17 @@ again:
 
 	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
 	if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) {
-		netif_stop_queue(dev);
-		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Unexpected full queue\n");
-		if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb(vi->svq))) {
-			virtqueue_disable_cb(vi->svq);
-			netif_start_queue(dev);
-			goto again;
+		if (net_ratelimit()) {
+			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM))
+				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
+					 "TX queue failure: out of memory\n");
+			else
+				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
+					 "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n",
+					 capacity);
 		}
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 	virtqueue_kick(vi->svq);