Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932230Ab0FUK7N (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:59:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30346 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757620Ab0FUK7M (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:59:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:53:29 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Rusty Russell Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Sridhar Samudrala , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jiri Pirko , Shirley Ma , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for-2.6.35] virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx Message-ID: <20100621105329.GA9506@redhat.com> References: <20100610152041.GA3480@redhat.com> <201006211213.49600.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20100621083315.GA8665@redhat.com> <201006211953.44724.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201006211953.44724.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 40 On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:53:43PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:03:16 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:13:49PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > - return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; > > > + kfree_skb(skb); > > > + return NETDEV_TX_OK; > > > > If we do so, let's increment the dropped counter and/or error counter? > > Yep, here's the extra change: Looks good to me. > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c > @@ -571,14 +571,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_ > /* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */ > if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) { > if (net_ratelimit()) { > - if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) > + if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) { > dev_warn(&dev->dev, > "TX queue failure: out of memory\n"); > - else > + } else { > + dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++; > dev_warn(&dev->dev, > "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n", > capacity); > } > + dev->stats.tx_dropped++; > kfree_skb(skb); > return NETDEV_TX_OK; > } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/