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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-10-26 15:46:51 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-02 21:22:33 -0800
commitb6cd27ed33886a5ffaf0925a6d98e13e18e8a1af (patch)
tree9657515409d89b8b43134e0a29f7c3730901277c
parent93ec2c723e3f8a216dde2899aeb85c648672bc6b (diff)
netpoll per device txq
When the netpoll beast got really busy, it tended to clog things, so it stored them for later. But the beast was putting all it's skb's in one basket. This was bad because maybe some pipes were clogged and others were not. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netpoll.h2
-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c50
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index 39845fc975f..93a8b766442 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ struct netpoll_info {
spinlock_t rx_lock;
struct netpoll *rx_np; /* netpoll that registered an rx_hook */
struct sk_buff_head arp_tx; /* list of arp requests to reply to */
+ struct sk_buff_head txq;
+ struct work_struct tx_work;
};
void netpoll_poll(struct netpoll *np);
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index c66df2f45d2..ac4e8b8f57d 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -38,10 +38,6 @@
static struct sk_buff_head skb_pool;
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(queue_lock);
-static int queue_depth;
-static struct sk_buff *queue_head, *queue_tail;
-
static atomic_t trapped;
#define NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED 1
@@ -56,46 +52,25 @@ static void arp_reply(struct sk_buff *skb);
static void queue_process(void *p)
{
- unsigned long flags;
+ struct netpoll_info *npinfo = p;
struct sk_buff *skb;
- while (queue_head) {
- spin_lock_irqsave(&queue_lock, flags);
-
- skb = queue_head;
- queue_head = skb->next;
- if (skb == queue_tail)
- queue_head = NULL;
-
- queue_depth--;
-
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&queue_lock, flags);
-
+ while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&npinfo->txq)))
dev_queue_xmit(skb);
- }
-}
-static DECLARE_WORK(send_queue, queue_process, NULL);
+}
void netpoll_queue(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- unsigned long flags;
+ struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
+ struct netpoll_info *npinfo = dev->npinfo;
- if (queue_depth == MAX_QUEUE_DEPTH) {
- __kfree_skb(skb);
- return;
+ if (!npinfo)
+ kfree_skb(skb);
+ else {
+ skb_queue_tail(&npinfo->txq, skb);
+ schedule_work(&npinfo->tx_work);
}
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&queue_lock, flags);
- if (!queue_head)
- queue_head = skb;
- else
- queue_tail->next = skb;
- queue_tail = skb;
- queue_depth++;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&queue_lock, flags);
-
- schedule_work(&send_queue);
}
static int checksum_udp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct udphdr *uh,
@@ -658,6 +633,9 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
npinfo->tries = MAX_RETRIES;
spin_lock_init(&npinfo->rx_lock);
skb_queue_head_init(&npinfo->arp_tx);
+ skb_queue_head_init(&npinfo->txq);
+ INIT_WORK(&npinfo->tx_work, queue_process, npinfo);
+
atomic_set(&npinfo->refcnt, 1);
} else {
npinfo = ndev->npinfo;
@@ -780,6 +758,8 @@ void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
np->dev->npinfo = NULL;
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&npinfo->refcnt)) {
skb_queue_purge(&npinfo->arp_tx);
+ skb_queue_purge(&npinfo->txq);
+ flush_scheduled_work();
kfree(npinfo);
}