From: Vitaliy Sochnev <sochnev.v.74@gmail.com>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vitaliy Sochnev <sochnev.v.74@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] net: airoha: fix silent RX packet loss on ring 4
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:57:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260830095717.37218-1-sochnev.v.74@gmail.com> (raw)
This series fixes silent RX packet loss on the airoha_eth driver that
shows up as PPPoE/DHCP negotiation randomly failing to complete
(reported and reproduced on Nokia XG-040G-MF, AN7583). Two independent
causes were found on the same ring - ring 4, the shared "force to CPU"
ring that several unrelated control protocols get routed onto - so
they're posted together for context even though patch 1 targets net
and patches 2-4 target net-next:
1/4 (net): RX_NO_CPU_DSCP interrupt was unmasked but never
handled, so a ring drained to zero descriptors
never got NAPI rescheduled to refill it. Plain bug
fix, no new behavior beyond "stuck ring recovers".
2/4 (net-next): a second, independent cause: hardware can complete
a descriptor past the software-posted boundary
before it's been reposted, wedging the strictly
sequential consumer forever even though real frames
are sitting further along in the ring. Detected via
comparing hw's own RX_DMA_IDX against the sw
consumer across polls, recovered via a deferred
ring resync. Marked net-next rather than net
because I can't currently offer a fresh
reproduction to back it up - see the patch itself
for what evidence it does rest on.
3/4 (net-next): new ethtool -S counter for observing when 2/4's
recovery fires. New ABI, split out from the fix
itself, no correctness impact either way.
4/4 (net-next): grow ring 4 from 16 to 128 descriptors, since the
race in 2/4 is correlated with this specific ring's
idle-to-first-frame burst pattern. On its own this
doesn't fix anything - it exists to make the race
in 2/4 harder to hit - so it only makes sense
alongside 2/4, hence net-next timing here too.
Some background on how these were found and tested, and answers to a
couple of questions I expect to come up, since they already did during
downstream review:
- All four were developed, build- and stress-tested against a 6.18
base as part of an OpenWrt PR (openwrt/openwrt#24872) before being
rebased here against current net/net-next. 1/4 and 4/4 have real
hardware evidence: 1/4 fixes a reproduced-on-hardware bug tracked at
the issue linked in its commit; 4/4's 128-descriptor ring survived
500+ forced PPPoE/DHCP reconnect cycles (~20h+) on real hardware with
zero drops, both with and without 2/4 present.
- 2/4's race itself did not reproduce during ~57 combined hours of
fresh stress-testing this round (with and without the fix present,
same test methodology as above) - its rx_stall_recover counter (3/4)
never incremented once. The case for 2/4 rests on earlier, less
controlled field/downstream testing that did point at this exact
race, not on a fresh trigger from this round. I'm not confident
enough in that to call it a `net` fix, hence net-next.
- 2/4 and 1/4 each carry an open question in their commit messages
(an MMIO-read cost on the RX hot path for 2/4, an interrupt-storm
question for 1/4) that came up during the downstream review -
answered inline there rather than left for a first pass here.
Vitaliy Sochnev (4):
net: airoha: handle RX_NO_CPU_DSCP interrupt, not just RX_DONE
net: airoha: recover RX ring after hw completion race
net: airoha: add rx_stall_recover ethtool counter
net: airoha: grow RX ring 4 to 128 descriptors
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 207 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h | 22 +++
2 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-30 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-30 9:57 Vitaliy Sochnev [this message]
2026-08-30 9:57 ` [PATCH net 1/4] net: airoha: handle RX_NO_CPU_DSCP interrupt, not just RX_DONE Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-30 13:26 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-08-30 9:57 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: airoha: recover RX ring after hw completion race Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-30 14:18 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-08-30 9:57 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: airoha: add rx_stall_recover ethtool counter Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-30 9:57 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: airoha: grow RX ring 4 to 128 descriptors Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-30 14:24 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-08-31 23:46 ` [PATCH net v2 0/3] net: airoha: fix silent RX loss on the shared CPU ring Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-31 23:46 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] net: airoha: handle RX_NO_CPU_DSCP interrupt, not just RX_DONE Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-31 23:47 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] net: airoha: recover RX ring after hw completion stall Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-01 7:38 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-09-01 18:33 ` Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-08-31 23:47 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] net: airoha: grow the small RX rings Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-01 7:23 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-09-01 18:32 ` [PATCH net v3 0/2] net: airoha: fix silent RX loss on the shared CPU ring Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-01 18:32 ` [PATCH net v3 1/2] net: airoha: handle RX_NO_CPU_DSCP interrupt, not just RX_DONE Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-04 0:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-10 23:06 ` Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-04 0:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-09-01 18:32 ` [PATCH net v3 2/2] net: airoha: grow the small RX rings Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-06 6:37 ` net: airoha: RX rings below 32 descriptors let hw DMA past the ring Vitaliy Sochnev
2026-09-06 8:02 ` Vitaliy Sochnev
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