Drivers: hv: vmbus: Enable explicit signaling policy for NIC channels
For synthetic NIC channels, enable explicit signaling policy as netvsc wants to
explicitly control when the host is to be signaled.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
index e47d37d..9a49505 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@
bufferlist[2].iov_len = (packetlen_aligned - packetlen);
ret = hv_ringbuffer_write(&channel->outbound, bufferlist, num_vecs,
- &signal, lock);
+ &signal, lock, channel->signal_policy);
/*
* Signalling the host is conditional on many factors:
@@ -671,11 +671,6 @@
* mechanism which can hurt the performance otherwise.
*/
- if (channel->signal_policy)
- signal = true;
- else
- kick_q = true;
-
if (((ret == 0) && kick_q && signal) ||
(ret && !is_hvsock_channel(channel)))
vmbus_setevent(channel);
@@ -768,7 +763,7 @@
bufferlist[2].iov_len = (packetlen_aligned - packetlen);
ret = hv_ringbuffer_write(&channel->outbound, bufferlist, 3,
- &signal, lock);
+ &signal, lock, channel->signal_policy);
/*
* Signalling the host is conditional on many factors:
@@ -786,11 +781,6 @@
* enough condition that it should not matter.
*/
- if (channel->signal_policy)
- signal = true;
- else
- kick_q = true;
-
if (((ret == 0) && kick_q && signal) || (ret))
vmbus_setevent(channel);
@@ -852,7 +842,7 @@
bufferlist[2].iov_len = (packetlen_aligned - packetlen);
ret = hv_ringbuffer_write(&channel->outbound, bufferlist, 3,
- &signal, lock);
+ &signal, lock, channel->signal_policy);
if (ret == 0 && signal)
vmbus_setevent(channel);
@@ -917,7 +907,7 @@
bufferlist[2].iov_len = (packetlen_aligned - packetlen);
ret = hv_ringbuffer_write(&channel->outbound, bufferlist, 3,
- &signal, lock);
+ &signal, lock, channel->signal_policy);
if (ret == 0 && signal)
vmbus_setevent(channel);