[PATCH 3.10 02/16] net: rps: fix cpu unplug

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 24 2015 - 21:16:07 EST


3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit ac64da0b83d82abe62f78b3d0e21cca31aea24fa ]

softnet_data.input_pkt_queue is protected by a spinlock that
we must hold when transferring packets from victim queue to an active
one. This is because other cpus could still be trying to enqueue packets
into victim queue.

A second problem is that when we transfert the NAPI poll_list from
victim to current cpu, we absolutely need to special case the percpu
backlog, because we do not want to add complex locking to protect
process_queue : Only owner cpu is allowed to manipulate it, unless cpu
is offline.

Based on initial patch from Prasad Sodagudi & Subash Abhinov
Kasiviswanathan.

This version is better because we do not slow down packet processing,
only make migration safer.

Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6015,10 +6015,20 @@ static int dev_cpu_callback(struct notif
oldsd->output_queue = NULL;
oldsd->output_queue_tailp = &oldsd->output_queue;
}
- /* Append NAPI poll list from offline CPU. */
- if (!list_empty(&oldsd->poll_list)) {
- list_splice_init(&oldsd->poll_list, &sd->poll_list);
- raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
+ /* Append NAPI poll list from offline CPU, with one exception :
+ * process_backlog() must be called by cpu owning percpu backlog.
+ * We properly handle process_queue & input_pkt_queue later.
+ */
+ while (!list_empty(&oldsd->poll_list)) {
+ struct napi_struct *napi = list_first_entry(&oldsd->poll_list,
+ struct napi_struct,
+ poll_list);
+
+ list_del_init(&napi->poll_list);
+ if (napi->poll == process_backlog)
+ napi->state = 0;
+ else
+ ____napi_schedule(sd, napi);
}

raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ);
@@ -6029,7 +6039,7 @@ static int dev_cpu_callback(struct notif
netif_rx(skb);
input_queue_head_incr(oldsd);
}
- while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&oldsd->input_pkt_queue))) {
+ while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&oldsd->input_pkt_queue))) {
netif_rx(skb);
input_queue_head_incr(oldsd);
}


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