xen-netback: don't stop dealloc kthread too early
authorWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:48:07 +0000 (11:48 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:07:44 +0000 (20:07 -0700)
Reference count the number of packets in host stack, so that we don't
stop the deallocation thread too early. If not, we can end up with
xenvif_free permanently waiting for deallocation thread to unmap grefs.

Reported-by: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c

Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge