On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:48:51PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> Use detach buffers API in virtio to free unused buffers in send queue when 
> shutting down 
> virtio_net to avoid maintaining skb link list for each transmit packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>

> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   26 ++++++++------------------
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 9d8984a..8069c08 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ struct virtnet_info
>       /* Host will merge rx buffers for big packets (shake it! shake it!) */
>       bool mergeable_rx_bufs;
>  
> -     /* Send queue. */
> -     struct sk_buff_head send;
> -
>       /* Work struct for refilling if we run low on memory. */
>       struct delayed_work refill;
>  
> @@ -505,7 +502,6 @@ static unsigned int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct 
> virtnet_info *vi)
>  
>       while ((skb = vi->svq->vq_ops->get_buf(vi->svq, &len)) != NULL) {
>               pr_debug("Sent skb %p\n", skb);
> -             __skb_unlink(skb, &vi->send);
>               vi->dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
>               vi->dev->stats.tx_packets++;
>               tot_sgs += skb_vnet_hdr(skb)->num_sg;
> @@ -588,15 +584,6 @@ again:
>       }
>       vi->svq->vq_ops->kick(vi->svq);
>  
> -     /*
> -      * Put new one in send queue.  You'd expect we'd need this before
> -      * xmit_skb calls add_buf(), since the callback can be triggered
> -      * immediately after that.  But since the callback just triggers
> -      * another call back here, normal network xmit locking prevents the
> -      * race.
> -      */
> -     __skb_queue_head(&vi->send, skb);
> -
>       /* Don't wait up for transmitted skbs to be freed. */
>       skb_orphan(skb);
>       nf_reset(skb);
> @@ -977,9 +964,6 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>                       dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER;
>       }
>  
> -     /* Initialize our empty send queue. */
> -     skb_queue_head_init(&vi->send);
> -
>       err = register_netdev(dev);
>       if (err) {
>               pr_debug("virtio_net: registering device failed\n");
> @@ -1016,6 +1000,12 @@ static void free_unused_bufs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
>  {
>       void *buf;
>       while (1) {
> +             buf = vi->svq->vq_ops->detach_unused_buf(vi->svq);
> +             if (!buf)
> +                     break;
> +             dev_kfree_skb(buf);
> +     }
> +     while (1) {
>               buf = vi->rvq->vq_ops->detach_unused_buf(vi->rvq);
>               if (!buf)
>                       break;
> @@ -1035,11 +1025,11 @@ static void __devexit virtnet_remove(struct 
> virtio_device *vdev)
>       /* Stop all the virtqueues. */
>       vdev->config->reset(vdev);
>  
> -     /* Free our skbs in send queue, if any. */
> -     __skb_queue_purge(&vi->send);
>  
>       unregister_netdev(vi->dev);
>       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
> +
> +     /* Free unused buffers in both send and recv, if any. */
>       free_unused_bufs(vi);
>  
>       vdev->config->del_vqs(vi->vdev);
> 
> 
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