Commit 0c3b9d1b authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

ibmvnic: remove ndo_poll_controller

As diagnosed by Song Liu, ndo_poll_controller() can
be very dangerous on loaded hosts, since the cpu
calling ndo_poll_controller() might steal all NAPI
contexts (for all RX/TX queues of the NIC). This capture
can last for unlimited amount of time, since one
cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load.

ibmvnic uses NAPI for TX completions, so we better let core
networking stack call the napi->poll() to avoid the capture.

ibmvnic_netpoll_controller() was completely wrong anyway,
as it was scheduling NAPI to service RX queues (instead of TX),
so I doubt netpoll ever worked on this driver.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a4f570be
......@@ -2207,19 +2207,6 @@ static int ibmvnic_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
return frames_processed;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
static void ibmvnic_netpoll_controller(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(dev);
int i;
replenish_pools(netdev_priv(dev));
for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
ibmvnic_interrupt_rx(adapter->rx_scrq[i]->irq,
adapter->rx_scrq[i]);
}
#endif
static int wait_for_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter)
{
int rc, ret;
......@@ -2292,9 +2279,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops ibmvnic_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_set_mac_address = ibmvnic_set_mac,
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
.ndo_tx_timeout = ibmvnic_tx_timeout,
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
.ndo_poll_controller = ibmvnic_netpoll_controller,
#endif
.ndo_change_mtu = ibmvnic_change_mtu,
.ndo_features_check = ibmvnic_features_check,
};
......
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