netdev - sfc MC errors when using accelerated RFS

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2016 09:01:53 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Solarflare linux maintainers <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>,
	Shradha Shah <sshah@...arflare.com>
Subject: sfc MC errors when using accelerated RFS

After a couple weeks of uptime under moderate accelerated RFS load
(mostly long-lived flows), I start getting errors like this:

sfc 0000:05:00.1 p3p2: MC command 0x8a inlen 108 failed rc=-28 (raw=28) arg=2

I've seem problems like this for a long time, and they're currently
happening on a stock 4.5.2 kernel using the in-tree sfc driver.  My
best guess is that something's wrong with the RFS state machine or
flow tracking and that the core or the driver's idea of the loaded
filters gets out of sync with the NIC.

If this isn't fixed, at some point we'll give up on Solarflare devices
and switch to something else.

I think that SolarFlare is internally tracking this as issue 42806.

--Andy