Re: [PATCH v15,RESEND 22/23] PCI: starfive: Offload the NVMe timeout workaround to host drivers.

Lorenzo Pieralisi
2024-02-29T15:08:51Z

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 06:35:21PM +0800, Minda Chen wrote:
> From: Kevin Xie <kevin.xie@starfivetech.com>
>
> As the Starfive JH7110 hardware can't keep two inbound post write in
> order all the time, such as MSI messages and NVMe completions. If the
> NVMe completion update later than the MSI, an NVMe IRQ handle will miss.

Please explain what the problem is and what "NVMe completions" means
given that you are talking about posted writes.

If you have a link to an erratum write-up it would certainly help.

This looks completely broken to me, if the controller can't guarantee
PCIe transactions ordering it is toast, there is not even a point
considering mainline merging.

> As a workaround, we will wait a while before going to the generic
> handle here.
>
> Verified with NVMe SSD, USB SSD, R8169 NIC.
> The performance are stable and even higher after this patch.

I assume this is a joke even though it does not make me laugh.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Xie <kevin.xie@starfivetech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minda Chen <minda.chen@starfivetech.com>
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h | 1 +
> drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c
> index a18923d7cea6..9e077ddf45c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda-host.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> #include <linux/msi.h>
> #include <linux/pci_regs.h>
> #include <linux/pci-ecam.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
>
> #include "pcie-plda.h"
>
> @@ -44,6 +45,17 @@ static void plda_handle_msi(struct irq_desc *desc)
> bridge_base_addr + ISTATUS_LOCAL);
> status = readl_relaxed(bridge_base_addr + ISTATUS_MSI);
> for_each_set_bit(bit, &status, msi->num_vectors) {
> + /*
> + * As the Starfive JH7110 hardware can't keep two
> + * inbound post write in order all the time, such as
> + * MSI messages and NVMe completions.
> + * If the NVMe completion update later than the MSI,
> + * an NVMe IRQ handle will miss.
> + * As a workaround, we will wait a while before
> + * going to the generic handle here.
> + */
> + if (port->msi_quirk_delay_us)
> + udelay(port->msi_quirk_delay_us);
> ret = generic_handle_domain_irq(msi->dev_domain, bit);
> if (ret)
> dev_err_ratelimited(dev, "bad MSI IRQ %d\n",
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h
> index 04e385758a2f..feccf285dfe8 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-plda.h
> @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ struct plda_pcie_rp {
> int msi_irq;
> int intx_irq;
> int num_events;
> + u16 msi_quirk_delay_us;
> };
>
> struct plda_event {
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> index 9bb9f0e29565..5cfc30572b7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/plda/pcie-starfive.c
> @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ static int starfive_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> plda->host_ops = &sf_host_ops;
> plda->num_events = PLDA_MAX_EVENT_NUM;
> + plda->msi_quirk_delay_us = 1;
> /* mask doorbell event */
> plda->events_bitmap = GENMASK(PLDA_INT_EVENT_NUM - 1, 0)
> & ~BIT(PLDA_AXI_DOORBELL)
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
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