[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: rps: fix cpu unplug" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: rps: fix cpu unplug

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt18.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 558a29c3a52fc112f4d6d91089d22f09a4ffdbc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:04:22 -0800
Subject: net: rps: fix cpu unplug

[ Upstream commit ac64da0b83d82abe62f78b3d0e21cca31aea24fa ]

softnet_data.input_pkt_queue is protected by a spinlock that
we must hold when transferring packets from victim queue to an active
one. This is because other cpus could still be trying to enqueue packets
into victim queue.

A second problem is that when we transfert the NAPI poll_list from
victim to current cpu, we absolutely need to special case the percpu
backlog, because we do not want to add complex locking to protect
process_queue : Only owner cpu is allowed to manipulate it, unless cpu
is offline.

Based on initial patch from Prasad Sodagudi & Subash Abhinov
Kasiviswanathan.

This version is better because we do not slow down packet processing,
only make migration safer.

Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud at codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ce67174..ce649f2 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6663,10 +6663,20 @@ static int dev_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 		oldsd->output_queue = NULL;
 		oldsd->output_queue_tailp = &oldsd->output_queue;
 	}
-	/* Append NAPI poll list from offline CPU. */
-	if (!list_empty(&oldsd->poll_list)) {
-		list_splice_init(&oldsd->poll_list, &sd->poll_list);
-		raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
+	/* Append NAPI poll list from offline CPU, with one exception :
+	 * process_backlog() must be called by cpu owning percpu backlog.
+	 * We properly handle process_queue & input_pkt_queue later.
+	 */
+	while (!list_empty(&oldsd->poll_list)) {
+		struct napi_struct *napi = list_first_entry(&oldsd->poll_list,
+							    struct napi_struct,
+							    poll_list);
+
+		list_del_init(&napi->poll_list);
+		if (napi->poll == process_backlog)
+			napi->state = 0;
+		else
+			____napi_schedule(sd, napi);
 	}

 	raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ);
@@ -6677,7 +6687,7 @@ static int dev_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 		netif_rx(skb);
 		input_queue_head_incr(oldsd);
 	}
-	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&oldsd->input_pkt_queue))) {
+	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&oldsd->input_pkt_queue))) {
 		netif_rx(skb);
 		input_queue_head_incr(oldsd);
 	}
--
1.9.1