Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio_net: enable tx interrupt

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:11:54 +0300

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:53:59AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>  static void skb_xmit_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
>  {
>  	struct virtnet_info *vi = vq->vdev->priv;
> +	struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[vq2txq(vq)];
>  
> -	/* Suppress further interrupts. */
> -	virtqueue_disable_cb(vq);
> -

One note here: current code seems racy because of doing
virtqueue_disable_cb from skb_xmit_done that I'm dropping here: there's
no guarantee we don't get an interrupt while tx ring is running, and if
that happens we can end up with interrupts disabled forever.

> -	/* We were probably waiting for more output buffers. */
> -	netif_wake_subqueue(vi->dev, vq2txq(vq));
> +	if (napi_schedule_prep(&sq->napi)) {
> +		__napi_schedule(&sq->napi);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static unsigned int mergeable_ctx_to_buf_truesize(unsigned long mrg_ctx)