netdev - Re: [net 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Fixes 2019-02-21

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Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:53:37 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Fixes 2019-02-21

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:33:14 -0800

> This series contains fixes to ixgbe and i40e.
> 
> Majority of the fixes are to resolve XDP issues found in both drivers,
> there is only one fix which is not XDP related.  That one fix resolves
> an issue seen on older 10GbE devices, where UDP traffic was either being
> dropped or being transmitted out of order when the bit to enable L3/L4
> filtering for transmit switched packets is enabled on older devices that
> did not support this option.
> 
> Magnus fixes an XDP issue for both ixgbe and i40e, where receive rings
> are created but no buffers are allocated for AF_XDP in zero-copy mode,
> so no packets can be received and no interrupts will be generated so
> that NAPI poll function that allocates buffers to the rings will never
> get executed.
> 
> Björn fixes a race in XDP xmit ring cleanup for i40e, where
> ndo_xdp_xmit() must be taken into consideration.  Added a
> synchronize_rcu() to wait for napi(s) before clearing the queue.
> 
> Jan fixes a ixgbe AF_XDP zero-copy transmit issue which can cause a
> reset to be triggered, so add a check to ensure that netif carrier is
> 'ok' before trying to transmit packets.

Pulled, thanks Jeff.