[PATCH net 5/7] net/mlx5: HWS, don't rehash on every kind of insertion failure

Mark Bloch
2025-08-17T20:24:00Z

If rule creation failed due to a full queue, due to timeout
in polling for completion, or due to matcher being in resize,
don't try to initiate rehash sequence - rehash would have
failed anyway.

Fixes: 2111bb970c78 ("net/mlx5: HWS, added backward-compatible API handling")
Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlad Dogaru <vdogaru@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
---
.../mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/bwc.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/bwc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/bwc.c
index 2a59be11fe55..adeccc588e5d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/bwc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/bwc.c
@@ -1063,6 +1063,21 @@ int mlx5hws_bwc_rule_create_simple(struct mlx5hws_bwc_rule *bwc_rule,
return 0; /* rule inserted successfully */
}

+ /* Rule insertion could fail due to queue being full, timeout, or
+ * matcher in resize. In such cases, no point in trying to rehash.
+ */
+ if (ret == -EBUSY || ret == -ETIMEDOUT || ret == -EAGAIN) {
+ mutex_unlock(queue_lock);
+ mlx5hws_err(ctx,
+ "BWC rule insertion failed - %s (%d)\n",
+ ret == -EBUSY ? "queue is full" :
+ ret == -ETIMEDOUT ? "timeout" :
+ ret == -EAGAIN ? "matcher in resize" : "N/A",
+ ret);
+ hws_bwc_rule_cnt_dec(bwc_rule);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
/* At this point the rule wasn't added.
* It could be because there was collision, or some other problem.
* Try rehash by size and insert rule again - last chance.
--
2.34.1