netdev - Re: STMMAC driver with TSO enabled issue

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Date:   Tue, 29 May 2018 21:13:21 +0530
From:   Bhadram Varka <vbhadram@...dia.com>
To:     Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>
Subject: Re: STMMAC driver with TSO enabled issue

Hi Jose,

On 5/28/2018 4:26 PM, Jose Abreu wrote:
> Hi Bhadram,
> 
> On 28-05-2018 10:15, Bhadram Varka wrote:
>> Hi Jose,
>>
>> On 5/25/2018 8:02 PM, Jose Abreu wrote:
>>> On 25-05-2018 15:25, Bhadram Varka wrote:
>>>> Hi Jose,
>>>>
>>>> On 5/25/2018 7:35 PM, Jose Abreu wrote:
>>>>> Hi Bhadram,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25-05-2018 05:41, Bhadram Varka wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jose,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/24/2018 3:01 PM, Jose Abreu wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Bhadram,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 24-05-2018 06:58, Bhadram Varka wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After some time if check Tx descriptor status - then I see
>>>>>>>> only
>>>>>>>> below
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [..]
>>>>>>>> [85788.286730] 027 [0x827951b0]: 0xf854f000 0x0 0x16d8
>>>>>>>> 0x90000000
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> index 025 and 026 descriptors processed but not index 027.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> At this stage Tx DMA is always in below state -
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ■ 3'b011: Running (Reading Data from system memory
>>>>>>>> buffer and queuing it to the Tx buffer (Tx FIFO))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thats strange, I think the descriptors look okay though. I
>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>> need the registers values (before the lock) and, if
>>>>>>> possible, the
>>>>>>> git bisect output.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attaching the register dump file after the issue observed.
>>>>>> Please check once.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----->8-----
>>>>> 0x112c = 0x0000003F
>>>>> 0x11ac = 0x0000003F
>>>>> 0x122c = 0x0000003F
>>>>> 0x12ac = 0x0000003F
>>>>>
>>>>> 0x1130 = 0x0000003F
>>>>> 0x11b0 = 0x0000003F
>>>>> 0x1230 = 0x0000003F
>>>>> 0x12b0 = 0x0000003F
>>>>> ----->8-----
>>>>>
>>>>> This can't be right, it should be DMA_{RX/TX}_SIZE - 1 =
>>>>> 511. Did
>>>>> you change these values in the code?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I have changed the descriptor length to 64 - so that
>>>> searching for the current descriptor status would be easy.
>>>
>>> Ok, it shouldn't impact anything. The only thing I'm remembering
>>> now is that you can have TSO not enabled in all DMA channels (HW
>>> configuration allows this). Please check if TSO in single-queue
>>> works.
>> TSO works fine if only single queue enabled. I don't see any
>> limitation from HW side because TSO works fine with other
>> driver which we received from Synopsys with IP drop.
> 
> You need to check with HW team if TSO is enabled for all channels
> because you can have TSO channels < DMA channels and there is no
> way to confirm this in the registers. Also check if received
> driver is routing packets to queue != 0.
> 

Root caused the issue to TxPBL settings. In current configuration driver 
using the TxPBL = 32 which will be fine for single channel but its not 
recommended settings for multi-queue scenario. Recommended setting for 
TxPBL is half of the queue size.

o Total MTL Tx queue size - 16KB
o For multi-queue - total size divided by number of queues -
(16KB/4) = 4KB for each queue.
o So we need to set the TxPBL value so that we can place memory request 
for 2KB from system memory. For this to achieve we need to set TxPBL=16.

Thanks for the help in debugging.

-- 
Thanks,
Bhadram.