RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net] net: ethernet: fec: prevent tx starvation under high rx load
From: Andy Duan <hidden>
Date: 2020-07-01 03:22:40
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 3:58 AM
From: "Tobias Waldekranz" <tobias@waldekranz.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:39:58 +0200quoted
On Mon Jun 29, 2020 at 3:07 PM CEST, David Miller wrote:quoted
I don't see how this can happen since you process the TX queue unconditionally every NAPI pass, regardless of what bits you see set in the IEVENT register. Or don't you? Oh, I see, you don't: for_each_set_bit(queue_id, &fep->work_tx, FEC_ENET_MAX_TX_QS) { That's the problem. Just unconditionally process the TX work regardless of what is in IEVENT. That whole ->tx_work member and the code that uses it can just be deleted. fec_enet_collect_events() can just return a boolean saying whether there is any RX or TX work at all.Maybe Andy could chime in here, but I think the ->tx_work construction is load bearing. It seems to me like that is the only thing stopping us from trying to process non-existing queues on older versions of the silicon which only has a single queue.Then iterate over "actually existing" queues.
Yes, the iterate over real queues, but only bit2 has the chance to be set, so it Is compatible with single queue.