xen-netback: don't stop dealloc kthread too early

Reference count the number of packets in host stack, so that we don't
stop the deallocation thread too early. If not, we can end up with
xenvif_free permanently waiting for deallocation thread to unmap grefs.

Reported-by: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wei Liu
2014-08-12 11:48:07 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent ea2c5e1342
commit a64bd93452
3 changed files with 42 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ struct xenvif_queue { /* Per-queue data for xenvif */
u16 dealloc_ring[MAX_PENDING_REQS];
struct task_struct *dealloc_task;
wait_queue_head_t dealloc_wq;
atomic_t inflight_packets;
/* Use kthread for guest RX */
struct task_struct *task;
@@ -329,4 +330,8 @@ extern unsigned int xenvif_max_queues;
extern struct dentry *xen_netback_dbg_root;
#endif
void xenvif_skb_zerocopy_prepare(struct xenvif_queue *queue,
struct sk_buff *skb);
void xenvif_skb_zerocopy_complete(struct xenvif_queue *queue);
#endif /* __XEN_NETBACK__COMMON_H__ */