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virtio_net: Set rx/tx busdma alignment to 1 byte
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Previous alignment is unnecessary, and caused locking issues on amd64.

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sarah.walker2_arm.com created this revision.Apr 28 2026, 1:43 PM
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Please be sure to add a Fixes: tag to the commit log message.

sys/dev/virtio/network/if_vtnet.c
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Just write 1?

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How can alignment lead locking issues ? Not an expert on this, just out of curious.

sarah.walker2_arm.com added a comment.Apr 29 2026, 1:29 PM
In D56691#1298952, @zlei wrote:

How can alignment lead locking issues ? Not an expert on this, just out of curious.

The standard behaviour for busdma_bounce implementations is that bus_dmamap with alignment > 1 is marked as COULD_BOUNCE. Among other things this can cause a bounce zone to be allocated at bus_dmamap creation time. This causes further allocations without M_NOWAIT which triggers the locking issue.

zlei added a comment.Apr 29 2026, 3:48 PM
In D56691#1298953, @sarah.walker2_arm.com wrote:
In D56691#1298952, @zlei wrote:

How can alignment lead locking issues ? Not an expert on this, just out of curious.

The standard behaviour for busdma_bounce implementations is that bus_dmamap with alignment > 1 is marked as COULD_BOUNCE. Among other things this can cause a bounce zone to be allocated at bus_dmamap creation time. This causes further allocations without M_NOWAIT which triggers the locking issue.

WoW !

andrew mentioned this in D55492: virtio_net: Use bus_dma for rxq/txq buffers.May 12 2026, 9:19 AM
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This can be closed? It's been merged into th re-opened D55492

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