From 58e0e22bff638055278ea73e34d0d07a95260790 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:27:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bnxt: 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. bnxt uses NAPI for TX completions, so we better let core networking stack call the napi->poll() to avoid the capture. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 18 ------------------ 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index 177587f9c3f1..61957b0bbd8c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -7672,21 +7672,6 @@ static void bnxt_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev) bnxt_queue_sp_work(bp); } -#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER -static void bnxt_poll_controller(struct net_device *dev) -{ - struct bnxt *bp = netdev_priv(dev); - int i; - - /* Only process tx rings/combined rings in netpoll mode. */ - for (i = 0; i < bp->tx_nr_rings; i++) { - struct bnxt_tx_ring_info *txr = &bp->tx_ring[i]; - - napi_schedule(&txr->bnapi->napi); - } -} -#endif - static void bnxt_timer(struct timer_list *t) { struct bnxt *bp = from_timer(bp, t, timer); @@ -8520,9 +8505,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops bnxt_netdev_ops = { .ndo_set_vf_spoofchk = bnxt_set_vf_spoofchk, .ndo_set_vf_trust = bnxt_set_vf_trust, #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER - .ndo_poll_controller = bnxt_poll_controller, -#endif .ndo_setup_tc = bnxt_setup_tc, #ifdef CONFIG_RFS_ACCEL .ndo_rx_flow_steer = bnxt_rx_flow_steer, -- 2.11.0