netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: fix handling of the Tx descriptor counter

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Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:51:15 +0100
From:   Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@...uanux.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        musv@....de, andreas.tobler@...udguard.ch,
        gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com,
        antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com, mw@...ihalf.com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: fix handling of the Tx descriptor counter

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 06:45:04PM +0900, David Miller wrote:
> From: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@...uanux.org>
> Date: Wed,  8 Nov 2017 17:58:35 +0100
> 
> > @@ -2413,8 +2416,7 @@ static int mvneta_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> >  		if (txq->count >= txq->tx_stop_threshold)
> >  			netif_tx_stop_queue(nq);
> >  
> > -		if (!skb->xmit_more || netif_xmit_stopped(nq) ||
> > -		    txq->pending + frags > MVNETA_TXQ_DEC_SENT_MASK)
> > +		if (!skb->xmit_more || netif_xmit_stopped(nq))
> >  			mvneta_txq_pend_desc_add(pp, txq, frags);
> >  		else
> >  			txq->pending += frags;
> 
> As David Laight said, you should not allow unlimited amounts of
> ->xmit_more frames to be queued without a TX doorbell update.
> 
> Therefore, please keep some kind of limit here otherwise latency
> will spike in some circumstances.

Hi David,

IIUC the driver stops the queue if a threshold of 316 Tx descriptors is
reached (default and worst value).

Is that a "good enough" kind of limit ? Or do you want me to keep the
condition above ?

Simon

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