This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ibmvnic: Fix overflowing firmware/hardware TX queue
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: ibmvnic-fix-overflowing-firmware-hardware-tx-queue.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017
From: Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 12:18:41 -0600 Subject: ibmvnic: Fix overflowing firmware/hardware TX queue
From: Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Upstream commit 142c0ac445792c492579cb01f1cfd4e32e6dfcce ]
Use a counter to track the number of outstanding transmissions sent that have not received completions. If the counter reaches the maximum number of queue entries, stop transmissions on that queue. As we receive more completions from firmware, wake the queue once the counter reaches an acceptable level.
This patch prevents hardware/firmware TX queue from filling up and and generating errors. Since incorporating this fix, internal testing has reported that these firmware errors have stopped.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c @@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff * u8 *hdrs = (u8 *)&adapter->tx_rx_desc_req; struct device *dev = &adapter->vdev->dev; struct ibmvnic_tx_buff *tx_buff = NULL; + struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue *tx_scrq; struct ibmvnic_tx_pool *tx_pool; unsigned int tx_send_failed = 0; unsigned int tx_map_failed = 0; @@ -724,6 +725,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff * int ret = 0;
tx_pool = &adapter->tx_pool[queue_num]; + tx_scrq = adapter->tx_scrq[queue_num]; txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(netdev, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb)); handle_array = (u64 *)((u8 *)(adapter->login_rsp_buf) + be32_to_cpu(adapter->login_rsp_buf-> @@ -826,6 +828,14 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff * ret = NETDEV_TX_BUSY; goto out; } + + atomic_inc(&tx_scrq->used); + + if (atomic_read(&tx_scrq->used) >= adapter->req_tx_entries_per_subcrq) { + netdev_info(netdev, "Stopping queue %d\n", queue_num); + netif_stop_subqueue(netdev, queue_num); + } + tx_packets++; tx_bytes += skb->len; txq->trans_start = jiffies; @@ -1220,6 +1230,7 @@ static struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue *ini scrq->adapter = adapter; scrq->size = 4 * PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*scrq->msgs); scrq->cur = 0; + atomic_set(&scrq->used, 0); scrq->rx_skb_top = NULL; spin_lock_init(&scrq->lock);
@@ -1368,8 +1379,22 @@ restart_loop: DMA_TO_DEVICE); }
- if (txbuff->last_frag) + if (txbuff->last_frag) { + atomic_dec(&scrq->used); + + if (atomic_read(&scrq->used) <= + (adapter->req_tx_entries_per_subcrq / 2) && + netif_subqueue_stopped(adapter->netdev, + txbuff->skb)) { + netif_wake_subqueue(adapter->netdev, + scrq->pool_index); + netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev, + "Started queue %d\n", + scrq->pool_index); + } + dev_kfree_skb_any(txbuff->skb); + }
adapter->tx_pool[pool].free_map[adapter->tx_pool[pool]. producer_index] = index; --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h @@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue { spinlock_t lock; struct sk_buff *rx_skb_top; struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter; + atomic_t used; };
struct ibmvnic_long_term_buff {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com are
queue-4.9/ibmvnic-allocate-number-of-rx-tx-buffers-agreed-on-by-firmware.patch queue-4.9/ibmvnic-fix-overflowing-firmware-hardware-tx-queue.patch