Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 5 authors, 2012-04-23

[net-next 08/14] ixgbe: Address issues with Tx WHTRESH value not being set correctly

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From: Jeff Kirsher <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-13 04:04:04
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Status: Reviewed.

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From: Alexander Duyck <redacted>

This change is meant to address the fact that the tx_itr_setting was
dropping to 0 when no separate Tx vectors were provided.  This had resulted
in the driver incorrectly configuring the Tx ring with a WTHRESH of 1 in
order to avoid Tx hangs even though that was not necessary. This change
makes it so that we instead take a look at the Tx ring's q_vector to
determine if the ring will have an ITR value less than 8us.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <redacted>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index a2c14bf..fc3c33a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -2595,12 +2595,15 @@ void ixgbe_configure_tx_ring(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
 	 * to or less than the number of on chip descriptors, which is
 	 * currently 40.
 	 */
-	if (!adapter->tx_itr_setting || !adapter->rx_itr_setting)
+	if (!ring->q_vector || (ring->q_vector->itr < 8))
 		txdctl |= (1 << 16);	/* WTHRESH = 1 */
 	else
 		txdctl |= (8 << 16);	/* WTHRESH = 8 */
 
-	/* PTHRESH=32 is needed to avoid a Tx hang with DFP enabled. */
+	/*
+	 * Setting PTHRESH to 32 both improves performance
+	 * and avoids a TX hang with DFP enabled
+	 */
 	txdctl |= (1 << 8) |	/* HTHRESH = 1 */
 		   32;		/* PTHRESH = 32 */
 
-- 
1.7.7.6
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