1. 26 10月, 2014 3 次提交
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      xen-netback: reintroduce guest Rx stall detection · ecf08d2d
      David Vrabel 提交于
      If a frontend not receiving packets it is useful to detect this and
      turn off the carrier so packets are dropped early instead of being
      queued and drained when they expire.
      
      A to-guest queue is stalled if it doesn't have enough free slots for a
      an extended period of time (default 60 s).
      
      If at least one queue is stalled, the carrier is turned off (in the
      expectation that the other queues will soon stall as well).  The
      carrier is only turned on once all queues are ready.
      
      When the frontend connects, all the queues start in the stalled state
      and only become ready once the frontend queues enough Rx requests.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Reviewed-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ecf08d2d
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      xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping · f48da8b1
      David Vrabel 提交于
      Netback needs to discard old to-guest skb's (guest Rx queue drain) and
      it needs detect guest Rx stalls (to disable the carrier so packets are
      discarded earlier), but the current implementation is very broken.
      
      1. The check in hard_start_xmit of the slot availability did not
         consider the number of packets that were already in the guest Rx
         queue.  This could allow the queue to grow without bound.
      
         The guest stops consuming packets and the ring was allowed to fill
         leaving S slot free.  Netback queues a packet requiring more than S
         slots (ensuring that the ring stays with S slots free).  Netback
         queue indefinately packets provided that then require S or fewer
         slots.
      
      2. The Rx stall detection is not triggered in this case since the
         (host) Tx queue is not stopped.
      
      3. If the Tx queue is stopped and a guest Rx interrupt occurs, netback
         will consider this an Rx purge event which may result in it taking
         the carrier down unnecessarily.  It also considers a queue with
         only 1 slot free as unstalled (even though the next packet might
         not fit in this).
      
      The internal guest Rx queue is limited by a byte length (to 512 Kib,
      enough for half the ring).  The (host) Tx queue is stopped and started
      based on this limit.  This sets an upper bound on the amount of memory
      used by packets on the internal queue.
      
      This allows the estimatation of the number of slots for an skb to be
      removed (it wasn't a very good estimate anyway).  Instead, the guest
      Rx thread just waits for enough free slots for a maximum sized packet.
      
      skbs queued on the internal queue have an 'expires' time (set to the
      current time plus the drain timeout).  The guest Rx thread will detect
      when the skb at the head of the queue has expired and discard expired
      skbs.  This sets a clear upper bound on the length of time an skb can
      be queued for.  For a guest being destroyed the maximum time needed to
      wait for all the packets it sent to be dropped is still the drain
      timeout (10 s) since it will not be sending new packets.
      
      Rx stall detection is reintroduced in a later commit.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Reviewed-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f48da8b1
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      xen-netback: make feature-rx-notify mandatory · bc96f648
      David Vrabel 提交于
      Frontends that do not provide feature-rx-notify may stall because
      netback depends on the notification from frontend to wake the guest Rx
      thread (even if can_queue is false).
      
      This could be fixed but feature-rx-notify was introduced in 2006 and I
      am not aware of any frontends that do not implement this.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Acked-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bc96f648
  2. 06 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  3. 14 8月, 2014 2 次提交
  4. 09 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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      xen-netback: Adding debugfs "io_ring_qX" files · f51de243
      Zoltan Kiss 提交于
      This patch adds debugfs capabilities to netback. There used to be a similar
      patch floating around for classic kernel, but it used procfs. It is based on a
      very similar blkback patch.
      It creates xen-netback/[vifname]/io_ring_q[queueno] files, reading them output
      various ring variables etc. Writing "kick" into it imitates an interrupt
      happened, it can be useful to check whether the ring is just stalled due to a
      missed interrupt.
      Signed-off-by: NZoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
      Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f51de243
  5. 26 6月, 2014 1 次提交
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      xen-netback: bookkeep number of active queues in our own module · f7b50c4e
      Wei Liu 提交于
      The original code uses netdev->real_num_tx_queues to bookkeep number of
      queues and invokes netif_set_real_num_tx_queues to set the number of
      queues. However, netif_set_real_num_tx_queues doesn't allow
      real_num_tx_queues to be smaller than 1, which means setting the number
      to 0 will not work and real_num_tx_queues is untouched.
      
      This is bogus when xenvif_free is invoked before any number of queues is
      allocated. That function needs to iterate through all queues to free
      resources. Using the wrong number of queues results in NULL pointer
      dereference.
      
      So we bookkeep the number of queues in xen-netback to solve this
      problem. This fixes a regression introduced by multiqueue patchset in
      3.16-rc1.
      
      There's another bug in original code that the real number of RX queues
      is never set. In current Xen multiqueue design, the number of TX queues
      and RX queues are in fact the same. We need to set the numbers of TX and
      RX queues to the same value.
      
      Also remove xenvif_select_queue and leave queue selection to core
      driver, as suggested by David Miller.
      Reported-by: NBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      CC: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f7b50c4e
  6. 05 6月, 2014 2 次提交
  7. 07 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  8. 18 10月, 2013 4 次提交
  9. 09 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  10. 01 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  11. 20 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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      xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev until the vif is shut down · 279f438e
      Paul Durrant 提交于
      Without this patch, if a frontend cycles through states Closing
      and Closed (which Windows frontends need to do) then the netdev
      will be destroyed and requires re-invocation of hotplug scripts
      to restore state before the frontend can move to Connected. Thus
      when udev is not in use the backend gets stuck in InitWait.
      
      With this patch, the netdev is left alone whilst the backend is
      still online and is only de-registered and freed just prior to
      destroying the vif (which is also nicely symmetrical with the
      netdev allocation and registration being done during probe) so
      no re-invocation of hotplug scripts is required.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
      Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Acked-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      279f438e
  12. 02 7月, 2013 1 次提交
  13. 24 5月, 2013 1 次提交
  14. 18 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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      xen-netback: enable user to unload netback module · b103f358
      Wei Liu 提交于
      This patch enables user to unload netback module, which is useful when user
      wants to upgrade to a newer netback module without rebooting the host.
      
      Netfront cannot handle netback removal event. As we cannot fix all possible
      frontends we add module get / put along with vif get / put to avoid
      mis-unloading of netback. To unload netback module, user needs to shutdown all
      VMs or migrate them to another host or unplug all vifs before hand.
      Signed-off-by: NWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
      Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>¬
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b103f358
  15. 05 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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      Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation · 73db144b
      Jan Beulich 提交于
      The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
      identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
      switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
      a macro to simplify this.
      
      Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
      DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
      the ID table will be used for .driver.name).
      
      Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
      wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
      'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
      when the macro gets used.
      
      v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.
      Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
      Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      73db144b
  16. 07 4月, 2011 1 次提交
  17. 16 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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      xen network backend driver · f942dc25
      Ian Campbell 提交于
      netback is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
      drivers/net/xen-netfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
      frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.
      
      The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
      has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
      cleanup passes and review iterations. The driver has been moved from
      drivers/xen/netback to drivers/net/xen-netback.
      
      One major change from xen.git is that the guest transmit path (i.e. what
      looks like receive to netback) has been significantly reworked to remove
      the dependency on the out of tree PageForeign page flag (a core kernel
      patch which enables a per page destructor callback on the final
      put_page). This page flag was used in order to implement a grant map
      based transmit path (where guest pages are mapped directly into SKB
      frags). Instead this version of netback uses grant copy operations into
      regular memory belonging to the backend domain. Reinstating the grant
      map functionality is something which I would like to revisit in the
      future.
      
      Note that this driver depends on 2e820f58 "xen/irq: implement
      bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler for backend drivers" which is in
      linux next via the "xen-two" tree and is intended for the 2.6.39 merge
      window:
              git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/backends
      this branch has only that single commit since 2.6.38-rc2 and is safe for
      cross merging into the net branch.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Reviewed-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f942dc25