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Message-ID: <fe7ce0bb-35b6-e16f-d86c-766a040b76df@linux.intel.com> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 13:24:14 +0200 From: "naamax.meir" <naamax.meir@...ux.intel.com> To: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@...nix.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@...nix.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Yan Vugenfirer <yan@...nix.com>, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Fix TX dispatch condition On 10/13/2022 08:00, Akihiko Odaki wrote: > e1000_xmit_frame is expected to stop the queue and dispatch frames to > hardware if there is not sufficient space for the next frame in the > buffer, but sometimes it failed to do so because the estimated maxmium > size of frame was wrong. As the consequence, the later invocation of > e1000_xmit_frame failed with NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and the frame in the buffer > remained forever, resulting in a watchdog failure. > > This change fixes the estimated size by making it match with the > condition for NETDEV_TX_BUSY. Apparently, the old estimation failed to > account for the following lines which determines the space requirement > for not causing NETDEV_TX_BUSY: >> /* reserve a descriptor for the offload context */ >> if ((mss) || (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)) >> count++; >> count++; >> >> count += DIV_ROUND_UP(len, adapter->tx_fifo_limit); > > This issue was found with http-stress02 test included in Linux Test > Project 20220930. > > Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@...nix.com> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Tested-by: Naama Meir <naamax.meir@...ux.intel.com>
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