netdev - [PATCH net 0/1] Prevent DSA tags from breaking COE

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Message-ID: <20231218162326.173127-1-romain.gantois@bootlin.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:23:22 +0100
From: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>
To: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>
Cc: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	Sylvain Girard <sylvain.girard@...com>,
	Pascal EBERHARD <pascal.eberhard@...com>,
	Richard Tresidder <rtresidd@...ctromag.com.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH net 0/1] Prevent DSA tags from breaking COE

Hello everyone,

This is a bugfix for an issue that was recently brought up in two
reports:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/c57283ed-6b9b-b0e6-ee12-5655c1c54495@bootlin.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/e5c6c75f-2dfa-4e50-a1fb-6bf4cdb617c2@electromag.com.au/

The Checksum Offloading Engine of some stmmac cores (e.g. DWMAC1000)
computes an incorrect checksum when presented with DSA-tagged packets. This
causes all TCP/UDP transfers to break when the stmmac device is connected
to the CPU port of a DSA switch.

The main change introduced by this series is a new stmmac dma feature that
stmmac_mac_link_up() can check to detect cores that have DSA-incompatible
COEs. If the flag is set and the netdevice uses DSA, stmmac_xmit() will
complete checksumming in software instead of offloading it.

I've run some iperf3 tests and the TX hotpath performance doesn't seem
to be degraded by the field added to dma_features.

Best Regards,

Romain

Romain Gantois (1):
  net: stmmac: Prevent DSA tags from breaking COE

 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h     |  1 +
 .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_dma.c  |  1 +
 .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c    | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
2.43.0