xen-netback: napi: don't prematurely request a tx event

This patch changes the RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS in
xenvif_build_tx_gops to a check for RING_HAS_UNCONSUMED_REQUESTS as the
former call has the side effect of advancing the ring event pointer and
therefore inviting another interrupt from the frontend before the napi
poll has actually finished, thereby defeating the point of napi.

The event pointer is updated by RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS in
xenvif_poll, the napi poll function, if the work done is less than the
budget i.e. when actually transitioning back to interrupt mode.

Reported-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
index db79e29b3d095767c8924172c2567225d8363944..33b8aa612d13632f91dcfe2d6548558eec8e55b8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ static unsigned xenvif_tx_build_gops(struct xenvif *vif, int budget)
                        continue;
                }
 
-               RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS(&vif->tx, work_to_do);
+               work_to_do = RING_HAS_UNCONSUMED_REQUESTS(&vif->tx);
                if (!work_to_do)
                        break;