Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

The dwmac-socfpga.c conflict was a case of a bug fix overlapping
changes in net-next to handle an error pointer differently.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 44672befc0ee..e9430f537f9c 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -140,8 +140,11 @@ int rds_send_xmit(struct rds_connection *conn)
 	struct scatterlist *sg;
 	int ret = 0;
 	LIST_HEAD(to_be_dropped);
+	int batch_count;
+	unsigned long send_gen = 0;
 
 restart:
+	batch_count = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * sendmsg calls here after having queued its message on the send
@@ -157,6 +160,17 @@ restart:
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * we record the send generation after doing the xmit acquire.
+	 * if someone else manages to jump in and do some work, we'll use
+	 * this to avoid a goto restart farther down.
+	 *
+	 * The acquire_in_xmit() check above ensures that only one
+	 * caller can increment c_send_gen at any time.
+	 */
+	conn->c_send_gen++;
+	send_gen = conn->c_send_gen;
+
+	/*
 	 * rds_conn_shutdown() sets the conn state and then tests RDS_IN_XMIT,
 	 * we do the opposite to avoid races.
 	 */
@@ -202,6 +216,16 @@ restart:
 		if (!rm) {
 			unsigned int len;
 
+			batch_count++;
+
+			/* we want to process as big a batch as we can, but
+			 * we also want to avoid softlockups.  If we've been
+			 * through a lot of messages, lets back off and see
+			 * if anyone else jumps in
+			 */
+			if (batch_count >= 1024)
+				goto over_batch;
+
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&conn->c_lock, flags);
 
 			if (!list_empty(&conn->c_send_queue)) {
@@ -357,9 +381,9 @@ restart:
 		}
 	}
 
+over_batch:
 	if (conn->c_trans->xmit_complete)
 		conn->c_trans->xmit_complete(conn);
-
 	release_in_xmit(conn);
 
 	/* Nuke any messages we decided not to retransmit. */
@@ -380,10 +404,15 @@ restart:
 	 * If the transport cannot continue (i.e ret != 0), then it must
 	 * call us when more room is available, such as from the tx
 	 * completion handler.
+	 *
+	 * We have an extra generation check here so that if someone manages
+	 * to jump in after our release_in_xmit, we'll see that they have done
+	 * some work and we will skip our goto
 	 */
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		smp_mb();
-		if (!list_empty(&conn->c_send_queue)) {
+		if (!list_empty(&conn->c_send_queue) &&
+		    send_gen == conn->c_send_gen) {
 			rds_stats_inc(s_send_lock_queue_raced);
 			goto restart;
 		}