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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix•com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix•com>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists•xen.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix•com>,
	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix•com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v2 2/3] xen-netback: don't stop dealloc kthread too early
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:58:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E8CBF5.1030600@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140811134847.GF3249@zion.uk.xensource.com>

On 11/08/14 14:48, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:10:12PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 08/08/14 17:37, Wei Liu wrote:
> [...]
>>>  	if (tx_evtchn == rx_evtchn) {
>>>  		/* feature-split-event-channels == 0 */
>>> @@ -687,6 +700,9 @@ void xenvif_disconnect(struct xenvif *vif)
>>>  			queue->task = NULL;
>>>  		}
>>>  
>>> +		wait_event(queue->inflight_wq,
>>> +			   atomic_read(&queue->inflight_packets) == 0);
>>
>> Just make the dealloc task not stop unless it has deallocated all
>> outstanding requests.  There's no need for another wait queue here.
>>
> 
> Are you suggesting something like
> 
>   while (atomic_read(&queue->inflight_packets) !=0)
>   	schedule_timeout(SOME_TIMEOUT);

No. That would be awful!

Add the test to the kthread itself:

int xenvif_dealloc_kthread(void *data)
{
	struct xenvif_queue *queue = data;

	while (atomic_read(&queue->inflight_packets) > 0
               || !kthread_should_stop()) {
            [...]

etc.

Although, the main loop is a bit confused, so I suggest adding:

static bool xenvif_dealloc_thread_should_stop(struct xenvif_queue *q)
{
    /* Dealloc thread must remain running if there are any inflight
     * packets so it can properly dealloc them when they complete.
     */
    return atomic_read(&queue->inflight_packets) == 0
        && kthread_should_stop();
}

And cleaning it up a bit (the while() could be a for(;;)).

David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-11 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-08 16:37 [PATCH net v2 0/3] xen-netback: synchronisation between core driver and netback Wei Liu
2014-08-08 16:37 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] xen-netback: move NAPI add/remove calls Wei Liu
2014-08-08 16:49   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-08-08 16:52     ` Wei Liu
2014-08-11 12:35   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-08-11 12:49     ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-11 13:01       ` David Vrabel
2014-08-11 13:14         ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-11 13:43           ` Wei Liu
2014-08-11 13:59             ` David Vrabel
2014-08-11 14:08               ` Wei Liu
2014-08-08 16:37 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] xen-netback: don't stop dealloc kthread too early Wei Liu
2014-08-11 12:10   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-08-11 13:48     ` Wei Liu
2014-08-11 13:58       ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-08-11 14:13         ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-11 14:44           ` Wei Liu
2014-08-11 15:23             ` David Vrabel
2014-08-11 20:39               ` Wei Liu
2014-08-11 14:31         ` Wei Liu
2014-08-11 14:34           ` David Vrabel
2014-08-11 14:39             ` Wei Liu
2014-08-08 16:37 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] xen-netback: remove loop waiting function Wei Liu

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