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Commit 24b2f5df authored by Laurent Vivier's avatar Laurent Vivier Committed by Paolo Abeni
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virtio_net: Enforce minimum TX ring size for reliability



The `tx_may_stop()` logic stops TX queues if free descriptors
(`sq->vq->num_free`) fall below the threshold of (`MAX_SKB_FRAGS` + 2).
If the total ring size (`ring_num`) is not strictly greater than this
value, queues can become persistently stopped or stop after minimal
use, severely degrading performance.

A single sk_buff transmission typically requires descriptors for:
- The virtio_net_hdr (1 descriptor)
- The sk_buff's linear data (head) (1 descriptor)
- Paged fragments (up to MAX_SKB_FRAGS descriptors)

This patch enforces that the TX ring size ('ring_num') must be strictly
greater than (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2). This ensures that the ring is
always large enough to hold at least one maximally-fragmented packet
plus at least one additional slot.

Reported-by: default avatarLei Yang <leiyang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLaurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarXuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250521092236.661410-4-lvivier@redhat.com


Tested-by: default avatarLei Yang <leiyang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parent bd2948d2
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