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net: sched: fix tx action reschedule issue with stopped queue

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The netdev qeueue might be stopped when byte queue limit has
reached or tx hw ring is full, net_tx_action() may still be
rescheduled if STATE_MISSED is set, which consumes unnecessary
cpu without dequeuing and transmiting any skb because the
netdev queue is stopped, see qdisc_run_end().

This patch fixes it by checking the netdev queue state before
calling qdisc_run() and clearing STATE_MISSED if netdev queue is
stopped during qdisc_run(), the net_tx_action() is rescheduled
again when netdev qeueue is restarted, see netif_tx_wake_queue().

As there is time window between netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped()
checking and STATE_MISSED clearing, between which STATE_MISSED
may set by net_tx_action() scheduled by netif_tx_wake_queue(),
so set the STATE_MISSED again if netdev queue is restarted.

Fixes: 6b3ba9146f ("net: sched: allow qdiscs to handle locking")
Reported-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yunsheng Lin
2021-05-14 11:17:01 +08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 102b55ee92
commit dcad9ee9e0
2 changed files with 28 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -3853,7 +3853,8 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
if (q->flags & TCQ_F_NOLOCK) {
rc = q->enqueue(skb, q, &to_free) & NET_XMIT_MASK;
qdisc_run(q);
if (likely(!netif_xmit_frozen_or_stopped(txq)))
qdisc_run(q);
if (unlikely(to_free))
kfree_skb_list(to_free);