> On Sep 20, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 09/20/2018 04:43 PM, Song Liu wrote:
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>> I tried to totally skip ndo_poll_controller() here. It did avoid hitting
>> the issue. However, netpoll will drop (fail to send) more packets.
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> Why is it failing ?
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> If you are under high memory pressure, then maybe if you absolutely want
> memory to send
> netpoll packets, you want to grab all NAPI contexts as a way to prevent other
> cpus
> from feeding incoming packets to the host and add more memory pressure ;)
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I did the test with Eric's latest patch (and disable ndo_poll_controller
in driver). The result didn't show significant increase in drop packets.
I guess packet drops in my earlier test was caused by some other changes
I mixed there.
So I think this patch does fix the issue. Thanks Eric!
For ixgbe, I think we need to check napi_complete_done() return value
anyway. Otherwise, the driver will enable IRQ in polling mode.
Song
