On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 03:45:13PM -0300, jcfara...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Julio Faracco <jcfara...@gmail.com> > > Driver virtio_net is not handling error events for TX provided by > dev_watchdog. This event is reached when transmission queue is having > problems to transmit packets. To enable it, driver should have > .ndo_tx_timeout implemented. This serie has two commits: > > In the past, we implemented a function to recover driver state when this > kind of event happens, but the structure was to complex for virtio_net > that moment.
It's more that it was missing a bunch of locks. > Alternativelly, this skeleton should be enough for now. > > For further details, see thread: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/23/691 > > Patch 1/2: > Add statistic field for TX timeout events. > > Patch 2/2: > Implement a skeleton function to debug TX timeout events. > > Julio Faracco (2): > drivers: net: virtio_net: Add tx_timeout stats field > drivers: net: virtio_net: Add tx_timeout function > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > -- > 2.21.0
