@@ -755,9 +755,7 @@ static void tx_add_credit(struct xenvif_queue *queue)
* Allow a burst big enough to transmit a jumbo packet of up to 128kB.
* Otherwise the interface can seize up due to insufficient credit.
*/
- max_burst = RING_GET_REQUEST(&queue->tx, queue->tx.req_cons)->size;
- max_burst = min(max_burst, 131072UL);
- max_burst = max(max_burst, queue->credit_bytes);
+ max_burst = max(131072UL, queue->credit_bytes);
/* Take care that adding a new chunk of credit doesn't wrap to zero. */
max_credit = queue->remaining_credit + queue->credit_bytes;
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled xen-netback: don't use last request to determine minimum Tx credit to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt23. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From d9df139b14f4c2b3326af4347693ac6a7dae9240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:16:01 +0000 Subject: xen-netback: don't use last request to determine minimum Tx credit commit 0f589967a73f1f30ab4ac4dd9ce0bb399b4d6357 upstream. The last from guest transmitted request gives no indication about the minimum amount of credit that the guest might need to send a packet since the last packet might have been a small one. Instead allow for the worst case 128 KiB packet. This is part of XSA155. Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)