aoe: use a kernel thread for transmissions

The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most
simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is
to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued
transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
index 8c4f6d942e05abf0ee237da95dec4be1dcc918d5..d0087de1780e0558db66332e986cdd191d2428ec 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ struct sk_buff *aoecmd_ata_id(struct aoedev *);
 void aoe_freetframe(struct frame *);
 void aoe_flush_iocq(void);
 void aoe_end_request(struct aoedev *, struct request *, int);
+int aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k);
+void aoe_ktstop(struct ktstate *k);
 
 int aoedev_init(void);
 void aoedev_exit(void);

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index 5928a08c1f3f35a5a23fe799e4e24ac77ccef87b..a1c5e8aa08c0231a342c851abac067b69c1e21a2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -1110,14 +1110,14 @@ kthread(void *vp)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static void
+void
 aoe_ktstop(struct ktstate *k)
 {
        kthread_stop(k->task);
        wait_for_completion(&k->rendez);
 }
 
-static int
+int
 aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k)
 {
        struct task_struct *task;

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
index 000eff2b53a84639ae83b739f297f6913a4f3ac6..5f43710601ab20678d0299b1fc317a8aef273042 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ static char aoe_iflist[IFLISTSZ];
 module_param_string(aoe_iflist, aoe_iflist, IFLISTSZ, 0600);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(aoe_iflist, "aoe_iflist=\"dev1 [dev2 ...]\"");
 
+static wait_queue_head_t txwq;
+static struct ktstate kts;
+
 #ifndef MODULE
 static int __init aoe_iflist_setup(char *str)
 {
@@ -44,6 +47,23 @@ static int __init aoe_iflist_setup(char *str)
 __setup("aoe_iflist=", aoe_iflist_setup);
 #endif
 
+static spinlock_t txlock;
+static struct sk_buff_head skbtxq;
+
+/* enters with txlock held */
+static int
+tx(void)
+{
+       struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+       while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&skbtxq))) {
+               spin_unlock_irq(&txlock);
+               dev_queue_xmit(skb);
+               spin_lock_irq(&txlock);
+       }
+       return 0;
+}
+
 int
 is_aoe_netif(struct net_device *ifp)
 {
@@ -88,10 +108,14 @@ void
 aoenet_xmit(struct sk_buff_head *queue)
 {
        struct sk_buff *skb, *tmp;
+       ulong flags;
 
        skb_queue_walk_safe(queue, skb, tmp) {
                __skb_unlink(skb, queue);
-               dev_queue_xmit(skb);
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&txlock, flags);
+               skb_queue_tail(&skbtxq, skb);
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&txlock, flags);
+               wake_up(&txwq);
        }
 }
 
@@ -169,6 +193,15 @@ static struct packet_type aoe_pt __read_mostly = {
 int __init
 aoenet_init(void)
 {
+       skb_queue_head_init(&skbtxq);
+       init_waitqueue_head(&txwq);
+       spin_lock_init(&txlock);
+       kts.lock = &txlock;
+       kts.fn = tx;
+       kts.waitq = &txwq;
+       kts.name = "aoe_tx";
+       if (aoe_ktstart(&kts))
+               return -EAGAIN;
        dev_add_pack(&aoe_pt);
        return 0;
 }
@@ -176,6 +209,8 @@ aoenet_init(void)
 void
 aoenet_exit(void)
 {
+       aoe_ktstop(&kts);
+       skb_queue_purge(&skbtxq);
        dev_remove_pack(&aoe_pt);
 }