[PATCH net-next v4] net: napi: Skip last poll when arming gro timer in busy poll
From: Martin Karsten <hidden>
Date: 2026-05-23 01:23:27
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lkml
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Skip the extra call to napi->poll(), if the gro timer is armed at the
end of busy polling. This removes the need for having a separate
__busy_poll_stop() routine and its code is moved directly into the
relevant places in busy_poll_stop(). Remove obsolete comment about
ndo_busy_poll_stop().
This is a follow-up to commit 58e2330bd455 ("net: napi: Avoid gro timer
misfiring at end of busypoll"), which has deferred arming the gro timer
to the end of __busy_poll_stop() to eliminate a race condition between
a short timer and long poll that could leave the queue stuck with
interrupts disabled and no timer armed.
Co-developed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Karsten <redacted>
---
Changes since v3 [1]:
- Update comment following Paolo's and Jakub's suggestions - thanks!
Changes since v2 [2]:
- Fix patch formatting problems.
- Leave STATE_PREFER_BUSY_POLL bit set when timer is armed.
Don't want interrupts anyway until timer clears STATE_PREFER_BUSY_POLL.
Changes since RFC [3]:
- Sending only the cleanup/improvement patch to net-next.
- Expand commit message to summarize original issue.
- Streamline control flow.
- Improve comments.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260518181337.886459-1-mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f0ecdde3-de16-47ba-b795-fe0042114e96@uwaterloo.c/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260428175134.1197036-4-dtatulea@nvidia.com/ (local)
---
net/core/dev.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 26ac8eb9b259..a50cd68c6bfa 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c@@ -6863,22 +6863,6 @@ static void skb_defer_free_flush(void) #if defined(CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL) -static void __busy_poll_stop(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned long timeout) -{ - if (!timeout) { - gro_normal_list(&napi->gro); - __napi_schedule(napi); - return; - } - - /* Flush too old packets. If HZ < 1000, flush all packets */ - gro_flush_normal(&napi->gro, HZ >= 1000); - - clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state); - hrtimer_start(&napi->timer, ns_to_ktime(timeout), - HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED); -} - enum { NAPI_F_PREFER_BUSY_POLL = 1, NAPI_F_END_ON_RESCHED = 2,
@@ -6894,8 +6878,8 @@ static void busy_poll_stop(struct napi_struct *napi, void *have_poll_lock, /* Busy polling means there is a high chance device driver hard irq * could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED, and that NAPI_STATE_MISSED was * set in napi_schedule_prep(). - * Since we are about to call napi->poll() once more, we can safely - * clear NAPI_STATE_MISSED. + * Since we either call napi->poll() once more or start the timer, + * we can safely clear NAPI_STATE_MISSED. * * Note: x86 could use a single "lock and ..." instruction * to perform these two clear_bit()
@@ -6908,27 +6892,35 @@ static void busy_poll_stop(struct napi_struct *napi, void *have_poll_lock, if (flags & NAPI_F_PREFER_BUSY_POLL) { napi->defer_hard_irqs_count = napi_get_defer_hard_irqs(napi); - if (napi->defer_hard_irqs_count) { - /* A short enough gro flush timeout and long enough - * poll can result in timer firing too early. - * Timer will be armed later if necessary. - */ + if (napi->defer_hard_irqs_count) timeout = napi_get_gro_flush_timeout(napi); + } + if (timeout) { + netpoll_poll_unlock(have_poll_lock); + + /* Drain aged GRO packets before clearing SCHED since the NAPI + * won't run again until after the timer fires. When HZ < 1000, + * GRO age comparison is too coarse, so flush everything. + */ + gro_flush_normal(&napi->gro, HZ >= 1000); + + clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &napi->state); + hrtimer_start(&napi->timer, ns_to_ktime(timeout), + HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED); + } else { + /* Use driver poll to re-enable device interrupts. */ + rc = napi->poll(napi, budget); + /* Unless rc == budget we no longer own the NAPI instance, + * IRQ may fire on another CPU, poll this NAPI, and enter GRO. + */ + trace_napi_poll(napi, rc, budget); + netpoll_poll_unlock(have_poll_lock); + if (rc == budget) { + gro_normal_list(&napi->gro); + __napi_schedule(napi); } } - /* All we really want here is to re-enable device interrupts. - * Ideally, a new ndo_busy_poll_stop() could avoid another round. - */ - rc = napi->poll(napi, budget); - /* We can't gro_normal_list() here, because napi->poll() might have - * rearmed the napi (napi_complete_done()) in which case it could - * already be running on another CPU. - */ - trace_napi_poll(napi, rc, budget); - netpoll_poll_unlock(have_poll_lock); - if (rc == budget) - __busy_poll_stop(napi, timeout); bpf_net_ctx_clear(bpf_net_ctx); local_bh_enable(); }
base-commit: 6ec863c1848167fdd7124717a24f0a2b99e160ba -- 2.54.0