rtl8139: flush queued packets when RxBufPtr is written

Net queues support efficient "receive disable".  For example, tap's file
descriptor will not be polled while its peer has receive disabled.  This
saves CPU cycles for needlessly copying and then dropping packets which
the peer cannot receive.

rtl8139 is missing the qemu_flush_queued_packets() call that wakes the
queue up when receive becomes possible again.

As a result, the Windows 7 guest driver reaches a state where the
rtl8139 cannot receive packets.  The driver has actually refilled the
receive buffer but we never resume reception.

The bug can be reproduced by running a large FTP 'get' inside a Windows
7 guest:

  $ qemu -netdev tap,id=tap0,...
         -device rtl8139,netdev=tap0

The Linux guest driver does not trigger the bug, probably due to a
different buffer management strategy.

Reported-by: Oliver Francke <oliver.francke@filoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

diff --git a/hw/net/rtl8139.c b/hw/net/rtl8139.c
index 93695074227ab1dfe95bf2732ec0c89e8a5b7c72..7993f9f5b97db335031e82c1aa77859d482e7f34 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/net/rtl8139.c
+++ b/hw/net/rtl8139.c
@@ -2575,6 +2575,9 @@ static void rtl8139_RxBufPtr_write(RTL8139State *s, uint32_t val)
     /* this value is off by 16 */
     s->RxBufPtr = MOD2(val + 0x10, s->RxBufferSize);
 
+    /* more buffer space may be available so try to receive */
+    qemu_flush_queued_packets(qemu_get_queue(s->nic));
+
     DPRINTF(" CAPR write: rx buffer length %d head 0x%04x read 0x%04x\n",
         s->RxBufferSize, s->RxBufAddr, s->RxBufPtr);
 }