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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2018-09-21 15:27:38 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-09-23 21:55:24 -0700
commitac3d9dd034e565df2c034ab2ca71f0a9f69153c1 (patch)
tree8cc679798aebb820bdbb0df3c817a6e114ddce8f /include
parent16fdf8ba98391650ce4bc4f3f71629d8a413bc21 (diff)
downloadlinux-ac3d9dd034e565df2c034ab2ca71f0a9f69153c1.tar.bz2
netpoll: make ndo_poll_controller() optional
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. It seems that all networking drivers that do use NAPI for their TX completions, should not provide a ndo_poll_controller(). NAPI drivers have netpoll support already handled in core networking stack, since netpoll_poll_dev() uses poll_napi(dev) to iterate through registered NAPI contexts for a device. This patch allows netpoll_poll_dev() to process NAPI contexts even for drivers not providing ndo_poll_controller(), allowing for following patches in NAPI drivers. Also we export netpoll_poll_dev() so that it can be called by bonding/team drivers in following patches. Reported-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netpoll.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index 67662d01130a..3ef82d3a78db 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ struct netpoll_info {
};
#ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL
-extern void netpoll_poll_disable(struct net_device *dev);
-extern void netpoll_poll_enable(struct net_device *dev);
+void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev);
+void netpoll_poll_disable(struct net_device *dev);
+void netpoll_poll_enable(struct net_device *dev);
#else
static inline void netpoll_poll_disable(struct net_device *dev) { return; }
static inline void netpoll_poll_enable(struct net_device *dev) { return; }