netpoll: Don't drop all received packets.

Change the strategy of netpoll from dropping all packets received
during netpoll_poll_dev to calling napi poll with a budget of 0
(to avoid processing drivers rx queue), and to ignore packets received
with netif_rx (those will safely be placed on the backlog queue).

All of the netpoll supporting drivers have been reviewed to ensure
either thay use netif_rx or that a budget of 0 is supported by their
napi poll routine and that a budget of 0 will not process the drivers
rx queues.

Not dropping packets makes NETPOLL_RX_DROP unnecesary so it is removed.

npinfo->rx_flags is removed  as rx_flags with just the NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED
flag becomes just a redundant mirror of list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index 479d15c..154f977 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ struct netpoll {
 struct netpoll_info {
        atomic_t refcnt;
 
-       unsigned long rx_flags;
        spinlock_t rx_lock;
        struct semaphore dev_lock;
        struct list_head rx_np; /* netpolls that registered an rx_skb_hook */
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ static inline bool netpoll_rx_on(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        struct netpoll_info *npinfo = rcu_dereference_bh(skb->dev->npinfo);
 
-       return npinfo && (netpoll_rx_processing(npinfo) || npinfo->rx_flags);
+       return npinfo && netpoll_rx_processing(npinfo);
 }
 
 static inline bool netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index ef83a25..793dc04 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ static atomic_t trapped;
 DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(netpoll_srcu);
 
 #define USEC_PER_POLL  50
-#define NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED  1
-#define NETPOLL_RX_DROP     2
 
 #define MAX_SKB_SIZE                                                   \
        (sizeof(struct ethhdr) +                                        \
@@ -193,7 +191,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        const struct net_device_ops *ops;
        struct netpoll_info *ni = rcu_dereference_bh(dev->npinfo);
-       int budget = 16;
+       bool rx_processing = netpoll_rx_processing(ni);
+       int budget = rx_processing? 16 : 0;
 
        /* Don't do any rx activity if the dev_lock mutex is held
         * the dev_open/close paths use this to block netpoll activity
@@ -207,8 +206,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
                return;
        }
 
-       ni->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_DROP;
-       atomic_inc(&trapped);
+       if (rx_processing)
+               atomic_inc(&trapped);
 
        ops = dev->netdev_ops;
        if (!ops->ndo_poll_controller) {
@@ -221,8 +220,8 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
 
        poll_napi(dev, budget);
 
-       atomic_dec(&trapped);
-       ni->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_DROP;
+       if (rx_processing)
+               atomic_dec(&trapped);
 
        up(&ni->dev_lock);
 
@@ -1050,7 +1049,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp)
                        goto out;
                }
 
-               npinfo->rx_flags = 0;
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&npinfo->rx_np);
 
                spin_lock_init(&npinfo->rx_lock);
@@ -1076,7 +1074,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp)
 
        if (np->rx_skb_hook) {
                spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
-               npinfo->rx_flags |= NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED;
                list_add_tail(&np->rx, &npinfo->rx_np);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
        }
@@ -1258,8 +1255,6 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
        if (!list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np)) {
                spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
                list_del(&np->rx);
-               if (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np))
-                       npinfo->rx_flags &= ~NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED;
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
        }