netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] bnxt_en: Fix TX timeout during netpoll.

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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:33:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     michael.chan@...adcom.com
Cc:     songliubraving@...com, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] bnxt_en: Fix TX timeout during netpoll.

From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:41:04 -0400

> The current netpoll implementation in the bnxt_en driver has problems
> that may miss TX completion events.  bnxt_poll_work() in effect is
> only handling at most 1 TX packet before exiting.  In addition,
> there may be in flight TX completions that ->poll() may miss even
> after we fix bnxt_poll_work() to handle all visible TX completions.
> netpoll may not call ->poll() again and HW may not generate IRQ
> because the driver does not ARM the IRQ when the budget (0 for netpoll)
> is reached.
> 
> We fix it by handling all TX completions and to always ARM the IRQ
> when we exit ->poll() with 0 budget.
> 
> Also, the logic to ACK the completion ring in case it is almost filled
> with TX completions need to be adjusted to take care of the 0 budget
> case, as discussed with Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Reported-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Michael.