Re: [PATCH] net: Destroy previously created kthreads after failing to set napi threaded mode

[Z qiang]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:33 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 5:27 AM Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When setting 1 to enable napi threaded mode, will traverse dev->napi_list
> > and create kthread for napi->thread, if creation fails, the dev->threaded
> > will be set to false and we will clear NAPI_STATE_THREADED bit for all
> > napi->state in dev->napi_list, even if some napi that has successfully
> > created the kthread before. as a result, for successfully created napi
> > kthread, they will never be used.
> >
> > This commit therefore destroy previously created napi->thread if setting
> > napi threaded mode fails.
> >
>
> I am not sure we need this, because these kthreads are not leaked at
> present time.
>
> pktgen also creates unused kthreads (one per cpu), even if in most
> cases only one of them is used.
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> Leaving kthreads makes it possible to eventually succeed to enable
> napi threaded mode
> after several tries, for devices with 64 or more queues...
>

Thanks for the reply,   I understand the approach in this way.
But for successfully created napi kthreads, should NAPI_STATE_THREADED
bits not be cleared ?

Thanks
Zqiang

>
> This would target net-next.
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> If you claim to fix a bug (thus targeting net tree), we would need a Fixes: tag.
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>
> Thanks.