On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:00:18 +0000
Haiyang Zhang [off-list ref] wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 2:38 PM
To: Haiyang Zhang <redacted>
Cc: sashal@kernel.org; linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org; Haiyang Zhang
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Subject: Re: [PATCH hyperv-fixes] hv_netvsc: Fix unwanted wakeup after
tx_disable

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:48:45 +0000
Haiyang Zhang [off-list ref] wrote:
  

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+static inline void netvsc_tx_enable(struct netvsc_device *nvscdev,
+				    struct net_device *ndev)
+{
+	nvscdev->tx_disable = false;
+	mb(); /* ensure queue wake up mechanism is on */
+
+	netif_tx_wake_all_queues(ndev);
+}  

You don't need a full mb(). virt_wmb() should be sufficient.  

I will make this change. 

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Could I suggest an alternative approach.
You don't need to introduce a local tx_disable flag, the only place where a
wakeup could cause problems is after a send_completion was processed
during detach state.

Instead, just avoid wakeup in that place.  

In netvsc_detach(), after netif_tx_disable(), we call  netvsc_wait_until_empty(nvdev);
TX patch should not be waken up again while waiting for in/out ring to becomes empty.

In my tests before this patch, there are wakeup happens before netif_device_detach(), 
so netif_device_present(ndev) is still true at that time.

In other places, like netvsc_close(), link_change(), we also don't want wakeup after tx_disable.

Thanks.
- Haiyang

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--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c

@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ static void netvsc_send_tx_complete(struct

net_device *ndev,
                struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(ndev, q_idx);

                if (netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) &&
+                   netif_device_present(ndev) &&
                    (hv_get_avail_to_write_percent(&channel->outbound) >
                     RING_AVAIL_PERCENT_HIWATER || queue_sends < 1)) {
                        netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);  

Then what about doing netif_detach earlier in netvsc_detach.

The state management is already (too) complex in netvsc and adding another
boolean flag just makes it harder to understand.