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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2018-09-27 09:31:55 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-09-28 11:12:29 -0700
commit260dd2c3e2aeefbe78065f0737dceae1ceb1196a (patch)
treea33c30a777b2afe3b5fff357cc2e567124ba5ca1 /drivers/net/virtio_net.c
parent4bd2c03be707253f1157bd759fdd6971e4f70403 (diff)
downloadlinux-260dd2c3e2aeefbe78065f0737dceae1ceb1196a.tar.bz2
virtio_net: remove ndo_poll_controller
As diagnosed by Song Liu, ndo_poll_controller() can be very dangerous on loaded hosts, since the cpu calling ndo_poll_controller() might steal all NAPI contexts (for all RX/TX queues of the NIC). This capture can last for unlimited amount of time, since one cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load. virto_net uses NAPI for TX completions, so we better let core networking stack call the napi->poll() to avoid the capture. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/virtio_net.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/virtio_net.c14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 765920905226..dab504ec5e50 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1699,17 +1699,6 @@ static void virtnet_stats(struct net_device *dev,
tot->rx_frame_errors = dev->stats.rx_frame_errors;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
-static void virtnet_netpoll(struct net_device *dev)
-{
- struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
- int i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; i++)
- napi_schedule(&vi->rq[i].napi);
-}
-#endif
-
static void virtnet_ack_link_announce(struct virtnet_info *vi)
{
rtnl_lock();
@@ -2447,9 +2436,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops virtnet_netdev = {
.ndo_get_stats64 = virtnet_stats,
.ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid = virtnet_vlan_rx_add_vid,
.ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid = virtnet_vlan_rx_kill_vid,
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
- .ndo_poll_controller = virtnet_netpoll,
-#endif
.ndo_bpf = virtnet_xdp,
.ndo_xdp_xmit = virtnet_xdp_xmit,
.ndo_features_check = passthru_features_check,