Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_net: suppress cpu stall when free_unused_bufs

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:09:20 -0400

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 06:46:18PM +0800, Wenliang Wang wrote:
> For multi-queue and large ring-size use case, the following error
> occurred when free_unused_bufs:
> rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenliang Wang <[email-masked]>

pls send vN+1 as a new thread not as a reply in existing thread of vN.

> ---
> v2:
> -add need_resched check.
> -apply same logic to sq.
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index ea1bd4bb326d..573558b69a60 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -3559,12 +3559,16 @@ static void free_unused_bufs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
>  		struct virtqueue *vq = vi->sq[i].vq;
>  		while ((buf = virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(vq)) != NULL)
>  			virtnet_sq_free_unused_buf(vq, buf);
> +		if (need_resched())
> +			schedule();
>  	}
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) {
>  		struct virtqueue *vq = vi->rq[i].vq;
>  		while ((buf = virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(vq)) != NULL)
>  			virtnet_rq_free_unused_buf(vq, buf);
> +		if (need_resched())
> +			schedule();
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1