Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/3] net: batched receive in GRO path
From: Edward Cree <hidden>
Date: 2019-07-10 16:47:28
On 10/07/2019 16:41, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On 7/10/19 4:52 PM, Edward Cree wrote:quoted
Hmm, I was caught out by the call to napi_poll() actually being a local function pointer, not the static function of the same name. How did a shadow like that ever get allowed? But in that case I _really_ don't understand napi_busy_loop(); nothing in it seems to ever flush GRO, so it's relying on either (1) stuff getting flushed because the bucket runs out of space, or (2) the next napi poll after busy_poll_stop() doing the flush. What am I missing, and where exactly in napi_busy_loop() should the gro_normal_list() call go?Please look at busy_poll_stop()
I did look there, but now I've looked again and harder, and I think I get it: busy_poll_stop() calls napi->poll(), which (eventually, possibly in the subsequent poll that we schedule if rc == budget) calls napi_complete_done() which does the flush. In which case, the same applies to the napi->rx_list, which similarly gets handled in napi_complete_done(). So I don't think napi_busy_loop() needs a gro_normal_list() adding to it(?) As a general rule, I think we need to gro_normal_list() in those places, and only those places, that call napi_gro_flush(). But as I mentioned in the patch 3/3 description, I'm still confused by the (few) drivers that call napi_gro_flush() themselves. -Ed