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SubjectRE: [PATCH RFC net-next] netvsc: get rid of completion timeouts
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 10:19 AM
> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; KY
> Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Subject: [PATCH RFC net-next] netvsc: get rid of completion timeouts
>
> I'm hitting 5 second timeout in rndis_filter_set_rss_param() while setting
> RSS parameters for the device. When this happens we end up returning
> -ETIMEDOUT from the function and rndis_filter_device_add() falls back to
> setting
>
> net_device->max_chn = 1;
> net_device->num_chn = 1;
> net_device->num_sc_offered = 0;
>
> but after a moment the rndis request succeeds and subchannels start to
> appear. netvsc_sc_open() does unconditional nvscdev->num_sc_offered--
> and
> it becomes U32_MAX-1. Consequent rndis_filter_device_remove() will hang
> while waiting for all U32_MAX-1 subchannels to appear and this is not
> going to happen.
>
> The immediate issue could be solved by adding num_sc_offered > 0 check to
> netvsc_sc_open() but we're getting out of sync with the host and it's not
> easy to adjust things later, e.g. in this particular case we'll be creating
> queues without a user request for it and races are expected. Same applies
> to other parts of the driver which have the same completion timeout.
>
> Following the trend in drivers/hv/* code I suggest we remove all these
> timeouts completely. As a guest we can always trust the host we're running
> on and if the host screws things up there is no easy way to recover anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

Thank you.
Acked-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>


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