From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
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>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: stmmac: improve TSO/GSO queue selection
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:11:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anybM_3Rdg8X8CMs@lore-qca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260808-stmmac_select_queue-tso-fix-v2-1-67175b29772e@oss.qualcomm.com>
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> GSO (TSO/USO) frames are currently always sent through queue 0 since
> the driver assumed there was no way to determine which queues are TSO
> capable. This unconditionally pins all GSO traffic to queue 0, bypassing
> the per-flow queue distribution and any XPS setup.
>
> Instead, pick the queue through netdev_pick_tx() and fall back to queue 0
> only when the selected queue cannot provide hardware checksumming (COE
> disabled) or, for the GSO types offloaded by hardware, cannot run TSO
> (TBS enabled), since TSO and TBS cannot coexist on the same channel (see
> stmmac_tso_channel_permitted()).
>
> While at it, base the TSO capability check on priv->gso_enabled_types
> rather than a hardcoded GSO type mask, so it matches the TSO/USO
> capability actually used by the transmit path (e.g. UDP segmentation is
> only offloaded on GMAC4).
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@oss.qualcomm.com>
please drop this version, I will post v3 to fix some pending issues.
Regards,
Lorenzo
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Take into account when checksum offload is not supported.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260807-stmmac_select_queue-tso-fix-v1-1-4c4787bad02b@oss.qualcomm.com
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index b2b7d0242dd3..7a4bd0292966 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -6445,19 +6445,21 @@ static int stmmac_setup_tc(struct net_device *ndev, enum tc_setup_type type,
> static u16 stmmac_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct net_device *sb_dev)
> {
> - int gso = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type;
> + u32 queue = netdev_pick_tx(dev, skb, NULL) % dev->real_num_tx_queues;
> + struct stmmac_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
>
> - if (gso & (SKB_GSO_TCPV4 | SKB_GSO_TCPV6 | SKB_GSO_UDP_L4)) {
> - /*
> - * There is no way to determine the number of TSO/USO
> - * capable Queues. Let's use always the Queue 0
> - * because if TSO/USO is supported then at least this
> - * one will be capable.
> + if (skb_is_gso(skb) &&
> + (priv->plat->tx_queues_cfg[queue].coe_unsupported ||
> + ((skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type & priv->gso_enabled_types) &&
> + !stmmac_tso_channel_permitted(priv, queue)))) {
> + /* GSO frames need hardware checksumming. Moreover, hardware
> + * TSO/USO can't run on COE-less or TBS queues. In this case
> + * fall back to the queue reserved for TSO (queue 0).
> */
> return 0;
> }
>
> - return netdev_pick_tx(dev, skb, NULL) % dev->real_num_tx_queues;
> + return queue;
> }
>
> static int stmmac_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *addr)
>
> ---
> base-commit: 8ac4255c1e0c83d2e1559a18b8918673116fc8d6
> change-id: 20260807-stmmac_select_queue-tso-fix-06cc586d4022
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@oss.qualcomm.com>
>
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