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    xen-netback: Turn off the carrier if the guest is not able to receive · f34a4cf9
    Zoltan Kiss authored
    Currently when the guest is not able to receive more packets, qdisc layer starts
    a timer, and when it goes off, qdisc is started again to deliver a packet again.
    This is a very slow way to drain the queues, consumes unnecessary resources and
    slows down other guests shutdown.
    This patch change the behaviour by turning the carrier off when that timer
    fires, so all the packets are freed up which were stucked waiting for that vif.
    Instead of the rx_queue_purge bool it uses the VIF_STATUS_RX_PURGE_EVENT bit to
    signal the thread that either the timeout happened or an RX interrupt arrived,
    so the thread can check what it should do. It also disables NAPI, so the guest
    can't transmit, but leaves the interrupts on, so it can resurrect.
    Only the queues which brought down the interface can enable it again, the bit
    QUEUE_STATUS_RX_STALLED makes sure of that.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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