On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:22:03 +0800 Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Btw, have a quick search, there are several other drivers that uses tx > lock in the tx NAPI. tx NAPI is not the issue. The issue is that write_msg() (in netconsole.c) calls this polling logic with the target_list_lock held. Are those other drivers called by netconsole? If not, then this is unique to virtio-net. -- Steve