RE: [PATCH] hyperv: Add netpoll support

[KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Weinberger [mailto:richard@nod.at]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 2:32 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan; Haiyang Zhang
> Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Richard Weinberger
> Subject: [PATCH] hyperv: Add netpoll support
> 
> In order to have at least a netconsole to debug kernel issues on Windows
> Azure this patch implements netpoll support.
> Sending packets is easy, netvsc_start_xmit() does already everything
> needed.
> To receive we need to trigger the channel callback which is usally called via
> tasklet_schedule().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> ---
>  drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c index 4fd71b7..367b71e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -736,6 +736,17 @@ static int netvsc_set_mac_addr(struct net_device
> *ndev, void *p)
>  	return err;
>  }
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
> +static void netvsc_poll_controller(struct net_device *net) {
> +	struct net_device_context *net_device_ctx = netdev_priv(net);
> +	struct hv_device *dev = net_device_ctx->device_ctx;
> +
> +	local_bh_disable();
> +	netvsc_channel_cb(dev->channel);
> +	local_bh_enable();
> +}
> +#endif

Each channel is bound to a specific VCPU in the guest and the channel callback is expected to be delivered on
the VCPU the channel is bound to. This code is not satisfying that requirement.

Regards,

K. Y