vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full

guest to remote communication with vhost net sometimes stops until
guest driver is restarted. This happens when we get guest kick precisely
when the backend send queue is full, as a result handle_tx() returns without
polling backend. This patch fixes this by restarting tx poll on this condition.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <toml@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 91a324c..ad37da2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -114,8 +114,12 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
                return;
 
        wmem = atomic_read(&sock->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
-       if (wmem >= sock->sk->sk_sndbuf)
+       if (wmem >= sock->sk->sk_sndbuf) {
+               mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
+               tx_poll_start(net, sock);
+               mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
                return;
+       }
 
        use_mm(net->dev.mm);
        mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);