From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>,
Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Rinitha S <sx.rinitha@intel.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18] ixgbe: stop re-reading flash on every get_drvinfo for e610
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:18:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260420132314.1023554-90-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260420132314.1023554-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
[ Upstream commit d8ae40dc20cbd7bb6e6b36a928e2db2296060ad2 ]
ixgbe_get_drvinfo() calls ixgbe_refresh_fw_version() on every ethtool
query for e610 adapters. That ends up in ixgbe_discover_flash_size(),
which bisects the full 16 MB NVM space issuing one ACI command per
step (~20 ms each, ~24 steps total = ~500 ms).
Profiling on an idle E610-XAT2 system with telegraf scraping ethtool
stats every 10 seconds:
kretprobe:ixgbe_get_drvinfo took 527603 us
kretprobe:ixgbe_get_drvinfo took 523978 us
kretprobe:ixgbe_get_drvinfo took 552975 us
kretprobe:ice_get_drvinfo took 3 us
kretprobe:igb_get_drvinfo took 2 us
kretprobe:i40e_get_drvinfo took 5 us
The half-second stall happens under the RTNL lock, causing visible
latency on ip-link and friends.
The FW version can only change after an EMPR reset. All flash data is
already populated at probe time and the cached adapter->eeprom_id is
what get_drvinfo should be returning. The only place that needs to
trigger a re-read is ixgbe_devlink_reload_empr_finish(), right after
the EMPR completes and new firmware is running. Additionally, refresh
the FW version in ixgbe_reinit_locked() so that any PF that undergoes a
reinit after an EMPR (e.g. triggered by another PF's devlink reload)
also picks up the new version in adapter->eeprom_id.
ixgbe_devlink_info_get() keeps its refresh call for explicit
"devlink dev info" queries, which is fine given those are user-initiated.
Fixes: c9e563cae19e ("ixgbe: add support for devlink reload")
Co-developed-by: Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <sx.rinitha@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:
Error: Failed to generate final synthesis
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c | 13 +++++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 10 ++++++++++
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c
index d227f4d2a2d17..f32e640ef4ac0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static int ixgbe_devlink_reload_empr_finish(struct devlink *devlink,
adapter->flags2 &= ~(IXGBE_FLAG2_API_MISMATCH |
IXGBE_FLAG2_FW_ROLLBACK);
- return 0;
+ return ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(adapter);
}
static const struct devlink_ops ixgbe_devlink_ops = {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
index dce4936708eb4..047f04045585a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ int ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter);
bool ixgbe_wol_supported(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u16 device_id,
u16 subdevice_id);
void ixgbe_set_fw_version_e610(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter);
-void ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter);
+int ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter);
#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_IOV
void ixgbe_full_sync_mac_table(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter);
#endif
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
index 2d660e9edb80a..0c8f310689776 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
@@ -1153,12 +1153,17 @@ static int ixgbe_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
return ret_val;
}
-void ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
+int ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
{
struct ixgbe_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
+ int err;
+
+ err = ixgbe_get_flash_data(hw);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
- ixgbe_get_flash_data(hw);
ixgbe_set_fw_version_e610(adapter);
+ return 0;
}
static void ixgbe_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev,
@@ -1166,10 +1171,6 @@ static void ixgbe_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev,
{
struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter = ixgbe_from_netdev(netdev);
- /* need to refresh info for e610 in case fw reloads in runtime */
- if (adapter->hw.mac.type == ixgbe_mac_e610)
- ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(adapter);
-
strscpy(drvinfo->driver, ixgbe_driver_name, sizeof(drvinfo->driver));
strscpy(drvinfo->fw_version, adapter->eeprom_id,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 501216970e611..240f7cc3f213f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -6289,6 +6289,16 @@ void ixgbe_reinit_locked(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
if (adapter->flags & IXGBE_FLAG_SRIOV_ENABLED)
msleep(2000);
ixgbe_up(adapter);
+
+ /* E610 has no FW event to notify all PFs of an EMPR reset, so
+ * refresh the FW version here to pick up any new FW version after
+ * a hardware reset (e.g. EMPR triggered by another PF's devlink
+ * reload). ixgbe_refresh_fw_version() updates both hw->flash and
+ * adapter->eeprom_id so ethtool -i reports the correct string.
+ */
+ if (adapter->hw.mac.type == ixgbe_mac_e610)
+ (void)ixgbe_refresh_fw_version(adapter);
+
clear_bit(__IXGBE_RESETTING, &adapter->state);
}
--
2.53.0
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