Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2007-04-30

Re: [patch 27/32] xen: Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2007-04-29 18:01:00
Also in: lkml, virtualization

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
+#include <linux/version.h>
not needed.
+#include <xen/xenbus.h>
+#include <xen/interface/io/netif.h>
+#include <xen/interface/memory.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON
+#include <xen/balloon.h>
+#endif
+#include <xen/interface/grant_table.h>
Please don't try to put such a fucked up include hierachy in.
Just move everything under include/xen or you will soon get
problems with the 80 line length limit for your includes..

Also please make sure that <xen/balloon.h> can be included unconditionally,
as we really don't like ifdefs around includes.
+struct netfront_info {
+	struct list_head list;
+	struct net_device *netdev;
+
+	struct net_device_stats stats;
+
+	struct netif_tx_front_ring tx;
+	struct netif_rx_front_ring rx;
+
+	spinlock_t   tx_lock;
+	spinlock_t   rx_lock;
+
+	unsigned int evtchn, irq;
+	unsigned int copying_receiver;
+	unsigned int carrier;
This doesn't not look like exactly smart cacheline alignment :)
+	grant_ref_t gref_tx_head;
What's a grant_ref_t?  Should this really be a typedef or better
a struct type?  Also it really wants a xen_ prefix instead of someting
so generic.
+ * Implement our own carrier flag: the network stack's version causes delays
+ * when the carrier is re-enabled (in particular, dev_activate() may not
+ * immediately be called, which can cause packet loss).
+ */
Did you talk to the networking folks about these problems?
+#define netfront_carrier_on(netif)	((netif)->carrier = 1)
+#define netfront_carrier_off(netif)	((netif)->carrier = 0)
+#define netfront_carrier_ok(netif)	((netif)->carrier)
Please use proper symbolic names for the ctal states and kill these
wrappers.
+static int setup_device(struct xenbus_device *, struct netfront_info *);
+static struct net_device *create_netdev(struct xenbus_device *);
+
+static void end_access(int, void *);
+static void netif_disconnect_backend(struct netfront_info *);
+
+static int network_connect(struct net_device *);
+static void network_tx_buf_gc(struct net_device *);
+static void network_alloc_rx_buffers(struct net_device *);
+
+static irqreturn_t netif_int(int irq, void *dev_id);
Any chance you could avoid these forward-prototypes by reordering
the functions a little?

Also a lot of these names are horribly generic.  A proper xennet_
prefix would probably help.
+static inline int xennet_can_sg(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	return dev->features & NETIF_F_SG;
+}
totally useless wrapper.
+static int __devexit netfront_remove(struct xenbus_device *dev)
+{
+	struct netfront_info *info = dev->dev.driver_data;
+
+	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);
+
+	netif_disconnect_backend(info);
+
+	del_timer_sync(&info->rx_refill_timer);
+
+	xennet_sysfs_delif(info->netdev);
+
+	unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
+
+	free_netdev(info->netdev);
This looks like very wrong ordering to me.  unregister_netdev should
be the first thing in the remove function.
+	SHARED_RING_INIT(rxs);
+	FRONT_RING_INIT(&info->rx, rxs, PAGE_SIZE);
Can you replace these shouting macros with proper named functions?
+	 * receive ring. This creates a less bursty demand on the memory
+	 * allocator, so should reduce the chance of failed allocation requests
+	 * both for ourself and for other kernel subsystems.
+	 */
+	batch_target = np->rx_target - (req_prod - np->rx.rsp_cons);
+	for (i = skb_queue_len(&np->rx_batch); i < batch_target; i++) {
+		/*
+		 * Allocate an skb and a page. Do not use __dev_alloc_skb as
+		 * that will allocate page-sized buffers which is not
+		 * necessary here.
+		 * 16 bytes added as necessary headroom for netif_receive_skb.
+		 */
+		skb = alloc_skb(RX_COPY_THRESHOLD + 16 + NET_IP_ALIGN,
+				GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
This comment doesn't make any sense, __dev_alloc_skb is:

static inline struct sk_buff *__dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length,
                                              gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
	struct sk_buff *skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
	if (likely(skb))
		skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
	return skb;
}

then again what you really should be using here is __netdev_alloc_skb.
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON
+		/* Tell the ballon driver what is going on. */
+		balloon_update_driver_allowance(i);
+#endif
	This should be a noop for !CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON in the header,
	and there should be no need for ifdefs here.
+		skb->nh.raw = (void *)skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page;
+		skb->h.raw = skb->nh.raw + rx->offset;
Stuff like this won't compile anymore in the current tree.
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