Commit 7292af04 authored by Brian Vazquez's avatar Brian Vazquez Committed by Tony Nguyen
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idpf: fix a race in txq wakeup



Add a helper function to correctly handle the lockless
synchronization when the sender needs to block. The paradigm is

        if (no_resources()) {
                stop_queue();
                barrier();
                if (!no_resources())
                        restart_queue();
        }

netif_subqueue_maybe_stop already handles the paradigm correctly, but
the code split the check for resources in three parts, the first one
(descriptors) followed the protocol, but the other two (completions and
tx_buf) were only doing the first part and so race prone.

Luckily netif_subqueue_maybe_stop macro already allows you to use a
function to evaluate the start/stop conditions so the fix only requires
the right helper function to evaluate all the conditions at once.

The patch removes idpf_tx_maybe_stop_common since it's no longer needed
and instead adjusts separately the conditions for singleq and splitq.

Note that idpf_tx_buf_hw_update doesn't need to check for resources
since that will be covered in idpf_tx_splitq_frame.

To reproduce:

Reduce the threshold for pending completions to increase the chances of
hitting this pause by changing your kernel:

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h

-#define IDPF_TX_COMPLQ_OVERFLOW_THRESH(txcq)   ((txcq)->desc_count >> 1)
+#define IDPF_TX_COMPLQ_OVERFLOW_THRESH(txcq)   ((txcq)->desc_count >> 4)

Use pktgen to force the host to push small pkts very aggressively:

./pktgen_sample02_multiqueue.sh -i eth1 -s 100 -6 -d $IP -m $MAC \
  -p 10000-10000 -t 16 -n 0 -v -x -c 64

Fixes: 6818c4d5 ("idpf: add splitq start_xmit")
Reviewed-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMadhu Chittim <madhu.chittim@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarSamuel Salin <Samuel.salin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
parent 73145e6d
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