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-rw-r--r--sys/dev/netmap/if_vtnet_netmap.h21
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/netmap/if_vtnet_netmap.h b/sys/dev/netmap/if_vtnet_netmap.h
index c34798a3c176..157cea56218e 100644
--- a/sys/dev/netmap/if_vtnet_netmap.h
+++ b/sys/dev/netmap/if_vtnet_netmap.h
@@ -310,8 +310,11 @@ vtnet_netmap_rxsync(struct netmap_kring *kring, int flags)
/*
* First part: import newly received packets.
* Only accept our own buffers (matching the token). We should only get
- * matching buffers. We may need to stop early to avoid hwtail to overrun
- * hwcur.
+ * matching buffers. The hwtail should never overrun hwcur, because
+ * we publish only N-1 receive buffers (and non N).
+ * In any case we must not leave this routine with the interrupts
+ * disabled, pending packets in the VQ and hwtail == (hwcur - 1),
+ * otherwise the pending packets could stall.
*/
if (netmap_no_pendintr || force_update) {
uint32_t hwtail_lim = nm_prev(kring->nr_hwcur, lim);
@@ -320,10 +323,17 @@ vtnet_netmap_rxsync(struct netmap_kring *kring, int flags)
vtnet_rxq_disable_intr(rxq);
nm_i = kring->nr_hwtail;
- while (nm_i != hwtail_lim) {
+ for (;;) {
int len;
token = virtqueue_dequeue(vq, &len);
if (token == NULL) {
+ /*
+ * Enable the interrupts again and double-check
+ * for more work. We can go on until we win the
+ * race condition, since we are not replenishing
+ * in the meanwhile, and thus we will process at
+ * most N-1 slots.
+ */
if (interrupts && vtnet_rxq_enable_intr(rxq)) {
vtnet_rxq_disable_intr(rxq);
continue;
@@ -333,6 +343,11 @@ vtnet_netmap_rxsync(struct netmap_kring *kring, int flags)
if (unlikely(token != (void *)rxq)) {
nm_prerr("BUG: RX token mismatch");
} else {
+ if (nm_i == hwtail_lim) {
+ KASSERT(false, ("hwtail would "
+ "overrun hwcur"));
+ }
+
/* Skip the virtio-net header. */
len -= sc->vtnet_hdr_size;
if (unlikely(len < 0)) {