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From: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
To: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>,
	"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.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>,
	"Richard Cochran" <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
	"Paolo Valerio" <pvalerio@redhat.com>,
	"Nicolai Buchwitz" <nb@tipi-net.de>,
	"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>,
	"Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
	"Benoît Monin" <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>,
	"Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
	"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	"Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 06/15] net: macb: allocate tieoff descriptor once across device lifetime
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:59:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701-macb-context-v3-6-00268d5b1502@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701-macb-context-v3-0-00268d5b1502@bootlin.com>

The tieoff descriptor is a RX DMA descriptor ring of size one. It gets
configured onto queues for Wake-on-LAN during system-wide suspend when
hardware does not support disabling individual queues
(MACB_CAPS_QUEUE_DISABLE).

MACB/GEM driver allocates it alongside the main RX ring
inside macb_alloc() at open. Free is done by macb_free() at close.

Change to allocate once at probe and free on probe failure or device
removal. This makes the tieoff descriptor lifetime much longer,
avoiding repeating coherent buffer allocation on each open/close cycle.

Main benefit: we dissociate its lifetime from the main ring's lifetime.
That way there is less work to be doing on resources (re)alloc. This
currently happens on close/open, but will soon also happen on context
swap operations (set_ringparam, change_mtu, set_channels, etc).

Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index 8b52122bc134..951a7f080225 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -2653,12 +2653,6 @@ static void macb_free(struct macb *bp)
 	unsigned int q;
 	size_t size;
 
-	if (bp->rx_ring_tieoff) {
-		dma_free_coherent(dev, macb_dma_desc_get_size(bp),
-				  bp->rx_ring_tieoff, bp->rx_ring_tieoff_dma);
-		bp->rx_ring_tieoff = NULL;
-	}
-
 	bp->macbgem_ops.mog_free_rx_buffers(bp);
 
 	size = bp->num_queues * macb_tx_ring_size_per_queue(bp);
@@ -2756,16 +2750,6 @@ static int macb_alloc(struct macb *bp)
 	if (bp->macbgem_ops.mog_alloc_rx_buffers(bp))
 		goto out_err;
 
-	/* Required for tie off descriptor for PM cases */
-	if (!(bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_QUEUE_DISABLE)) {
-		bp->rx_ring_tieoff = dma_alloc_coherent(&bp->pdev->dev,
-							macb_dma_desc_get_size(bp),
-							&bp->rx_ring_tieoff_dma,
-							GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!bp->rx_ring_tieoff)
-			goto out_err;
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 
 out_err:
@@ -2773,19 +2757,6 @@ static int macb_alloc(struct macb *bp)
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-static void macb_init_tieoff(struct macb *bp)
-{
-	struct macb_dma_desc *desc = bp->rx_ring_tieoff;
-
-	if (bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_QUEUE_DISABLE)
-		return;
-	/* Setup a wrapping descriptor with no free slots
-	 * (WRAP and USED) to tie off/disable unused RX queues.
-	 */
-	macb_set_addr(bp, desc, MACB_BIT(RX_WRAP) | MACB_BIT(RX_USED));
-	desc->ctrl = 0;
-}
-
 static void gem_init_rx_ring(struct macb_queue *queue)
 {
 	queue->rx_tail = 0;
@@ -2813,8 +2784,6 @@ static void gem_init_rings(struct macb *bp)
 
 		gem_init_rx_ring(queue);
 	}
-
-	macb_init_tieoff(bp);
 }
 
 static void macb_init_rings(struct macb *bp)
@@ -2832,8 +2801,6 @@ static void macb_init_rings(struct macb *bp)
 	bp->queues[0].tx_head = 0;
 	bp->queues[0].tx_tail = 0;
 	desc->ctrl |= MACB_BIT(TX_WRAP);
-
-	macb_init_tieoff(bp);
 }
 
 static void macb_reset_hw(struct macb *bp)
@@ -5518,6 +5485,38 @@ static int eyeq5_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int macb_alloc_tieoff(struct macb *bp)
+{
+	/* Tieoff is a workaround in case HW cannot disable queues, for PM. */
+	if (bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_QUEUE_DISABLE)
+		return 0;
+
+	bp->rx_ring_tieoff = dma_alloc_coherent(&bp->pdev->dev,
+						macb_dma_desc_get_size(bp),
+						&bp->rx_ring_tieoff_dma,
+						GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!bp->rx_ring_tieoff)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	macb_set_addr(bp, bp->rx_ring_tieoff,
+		      MACB_BIT(RX_WRAP) | MACB_BIT(RX_USED));
+
+	bp->rx_ring_tieoff->ctrl = 0;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void macb_free_tieoff(struct macb *bp)
+{
+	if (!bp->rx_ring_tieoff)
+		return;
+
+	dma_free_coherent(&bp->pdev->dev, macb_dma_desc_get_size(bp),
+			  bp->rx_ring_tieoff,
+			  bp->rx_ring_tieoff_dma);
+	bp->rx_ring_tieoff = NULL;
+}
+
 static const struct macb_usrio_config mpfs_usrio = {
 	.tsu_source = 0,
 };
@@ -5927,10 +5926,14 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
 
+	err = macb_alloc_tieoff(bp);
+	if (err)
+		goto err_out_unregister_mdio;
+
 	err = register_netdev(netdev);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot register net device, aborting.\n");
-		goto err_out_unregister_mdio;
+		goto err_out_free_tieoff;
 	}
 
 	INIT_WORK(&bp->hresp_err_bh_work, macb_hresp_error_task);
@@ -5944,6 +5947,9 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	return 0;
 
+err_out_free_tieoff:
+	macb_free_tieoff(bp);
+
 err_out_unregister_mdio:
 	mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
 	mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
@@ -5973,6 +5979,7 @@ static void macb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (netdev) {
 		bp = netdev_priv(netdev);
 		unregister_netdev(netdev);
+		macb_free_tieoff(bp);
 		phy_exit(bp->phy);
 		mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
 		mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-01 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-01 15:59 [PATCH net-next v3 00/15] net: macb: implement context swapping Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 01/15] net: macb: drop "consistent" from alloc/free function names Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:41   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 02/15] net: macb: unify device pointer naming convention Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 03/15] net: macb: unify variable naming convention in at91ether functions Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:42   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 04/15] net: macb: unify queue index variable naming convention and types Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:43   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 05/15] net: macb: enforce reverse christmas tree (RCT) convention Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:48   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` Théo Lebrun [this message]
2026-07-02 10:54   ` [PATCH net-next v3 06/15] net: macb: allocate tieoff descriptor once across device lifetime Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 07/15] net: macb: introduce macb_context struct for buffer management Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 08/15] net: macb: avoid macb_init_rx_buffer_size() modifying state Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 09/15] net: macb: make `struct macb` subset reachable from macb_context struct Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 10/15] net: macb: change caps helpers signatures Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 11/15] net: macb: change function signatures to take contexts Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 12/15] net: macb: introduce macb_context_alloc() helper Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 13/15] net: macb: re-read ISR inside IRQ handler locked section Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 14/15] net: macb: use context swapping in .set_ringparam() Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:37   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 15/15] net: macb: use context swapping in .ndo_change_mtu() Théo Lebrun

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