[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.4 00/12] hw/net: Fix .can_receive() for NICs

[Fam Zheng]

v2: Don't use BH in patches 6 and 12. [Jason]
    Add Stefan's reviewed-by in all others.
    Drop trace point in patch 8 and move function body upward. [Michael]

Since a90a742 "tap: Drop tap_can_send", all nics that returns false from
.can_receive() are required to explicitly flush the incoming queue when the
status of it is changing back to true, otherwise the backend will sop
processing more rx packets.

The purpose of this callback is to tell the peer backend (tap, socket, etc)
"hold on until guest consumes old data because my buffer is not ready". More
often than not NICs also do this when driver deactivated the card or disabled
rx, causing the packets being unnessarily queued, where they should actualy be
dropped.

This series adds such missing qemu_flush_queued_packets calls for all NICs, and
drops such unnecessary conditions in .can_receive(), so that NICs now:

  - return false from .can_receive when guest buffers are busy.
  - call qemu_flush_queued_packets when buffers are available again.
  - return -1 from .receive when rx is not enabled.

e1000, ne2000, rocker and vmxnet3 are not included because they're fixed by
other patches on the list and applied to Stefan's tree.

virtio-net is covered by another series:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg07377.html ^U

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/495379/  (the subject should have v2, my bad.)

All other NICs are okay, as they already do the flush on the state transition
points.

Please review.

Fam Zheng (12):
  xgmac: Drop packets with eth_can_rx is false.
  pcnet: Drop pcnet_can_receive
  eepro100: Drop nic_can_receive
  usbnet: Drop usbnet_can_receive
  etsec: Move etsec_can_receive into etsec_receive
  etsec: Flush queue when rx buffer is consumed
  mcf_fec: Drop mcf_fec_can_receive
  milkymist-minimac2: Flush queued packets when link comes up
  mipsnet: Flush queued packets when receiving is enabled
  stellaris_enet: Flush queued packets when read done
  dp8393x: Flush packets when link comes up
  axienet: Flush queued packets when rx is done

 hw/net/dp8393x.c            |  8 ++++++++
 hw/net/eepro100.c           | 11 -----------
 hw/net/fsl_etsec/etsec.c    | 20 ++++++++++----------
 hw/net/fsl_etsec/etsec.h    |  4 +++-
 hw/net/fsl_etsec/rings.c    | 17 +++++++++++------
 hw/net/lance.c              |  1 -
 hw/net/mcf_fec.c            |  9 +--------
 hw/net/milkymist-minimac2.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 hw/net/mipsnet.c            |  9 +++++++--
 hw/net/pcnet-pci.c          |  1 -
 hw/net/pcnet.c              |  9 ---------
 hw/net/pcnet.h              |  1 -
 hw/net/stellaris_enet.c     | 14 +++++---------
 hw/net/xgmac.c              |  8 ++++----
 hw/net/xilinx_axienet.c     | 17 +++++++++++++----
 hw/usb/dev-network.c        | 20 ++++----------------
 trace-events                |  1 -
 17 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

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