netdev - Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: stmmac: make stmmac-tx-timeout configurable in Kconfig

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Message-ID: <cf4accd9-d613-5da4-cf2e-ccd9f06f3786@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Dec 2021 11:45:10 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@....com>,
        "peppe.cavallaro@...com" <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        "alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com" <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
        "joabreu@...opsys.com" <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        Yannick Vignon <yannick.vignon@....com>,
        "boon.leong.ong@...el.com" <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>,
        "Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com" <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        "mst@...hat.com" <mst@...hat.com>,
        "Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com" <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@....com>, Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: stmmac: make
 stmmac-tx-timeout configurable in Kconfig

On 02.12.2021 11:28, Xiaoliang Yang wrote:
> Hi Heiner,
> 
> On Dec 02, 2021 at 16:13:20, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>> stmmac_tx_timeout() function is called when a queue transmission
>>> timeout. When Strict Priority is used as scheduling algorithms, the
>>> lower priority queue may be blocked by a higher prority queue, which
>>> will lead to tx timeout. We don't want to enable the tx watchdog
>>> timeout in this case. Therefore, this patch make stmmac-tx-timeout
>> configurable.
>>>
>> Your patch just disables the timeout handler, the WARN_ONCE() would still fire.
>> And shouldn't this be a runtime setting rather than a compile-time setting?
>>
> I tried to disable it in stmmac_tx_timeout() at runtime, the WARN_ONCE() will still be called from dev_watchdog() in sch_generic.c. It seems only when the timeout handler is NULL can disable the netdev watchdog up. So I did this in compile-time setting.
> 
The issue you're trying to fix is not driver-specific. Therefore the solution
should be added to net core.

> Regards,
> Xiaoliang
>