On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:53 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Suresh Reddy <redacted>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:25:23 -0400

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Driver dumps tx_queue, tx_compl, pending SKBs information in tx_timeout.
This debug data used to idenfiy the cause of the time out.

Also reset Lancer chip in tx_timeout.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Reddy <redacted>

The purpose of the tx timeout NDO operation is to do whatever is
necessary to handle the TX timeout.

Outputting debugging information is useful, but is secondary.

I see that you do reset the Lancer, but that is far from what really
needs to happen here.

When you get a TX timeout, the hardware is not processing TX ring
entries, nor signalling completion any longer.

Therefore the only way to get things going again is to reset all of
the TX side data structure and logic.  This means shutting down the TX
engine, freeing up all of the TX SKBs in the ring, resetting the TX
ring software state, and then finally reprogramming the head/tail
pointer registers and re-enabling TX DMA processing.

The current patch does recover from a TX-timeout by resetting the chip itself
that *includes* resetting the TX block. Freeing up TX SKBs and rings and
re-creating/registering them is also being done.

Now, this recovery is not supported in  BE3 and Skyhawk NICs but is supported
in Lancer NICs. That's why this patch performs recovery in the case of
Lancer NICs
but only gathers diagnostic information in the case of BE3 and Skyhawk NICs.

Regards,
Suresh.