Hi David,

On 30/01/15 16:04, David Vrabel wrote:
> How about this?

This is working for me. Thanks!

> 8<------------------------------------------
> xen-netback: stop the guest rx thread after a fatal error
> 
> After commit e9d8b2c2968499c1f96563e6522c56958d5a1d0d (xen-netback:
> disable rogue vif in kthread context), a fatal (protocol) error would
> leave the guest Rx thread spinning, wasting CPU time.  Commit
> ecf08d2dbb96d5a4b4bcc53a39e8d29cc8fef02e (xen-netback: reintroduce
> guest Rx stall detection) made this even worse by removing a
> cond_resched() from this path.
> 
> A fatal error is non-recoverable so just allow the guest Rx thread to
> exit.  This requires taking additional refs to the task so the thread
> exiting early is handled safely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@linaro.org>

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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