Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] IDPF Virtchnl fixes

[Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>]

On 8/13/2024 11:27 AM, Manoj Vishwanathan wrote:

Hi Manoj,

It would be great if you could familiarize yourself with the netdev process:

https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html#netdev-faq

For the Intel drivers, we follow the same guidelines other than we use 
iwl-net|iwl-next rather than net|net-next respectively.


> This patch series is to enhance IDPF virtchnl error reporting and some
> minor fixes to the locking sequence in virtchnl message handling
> we encountered while testing.
> Also includes a minor clean up with regards to warning we encountered
> in controlq section of IDPF.

The bug fixes should be broken out and designated for iwl-net and the 
others to iwl-next. Fix patches should include a Fixes: tag.

Also, please use RCT for networking patches (patch 1).

Thanks,
Tony

> The issue we had here was a virtchnl processing delay leading to the
> "xn->salt" mismatch, transaction timeout and connection not recovering.
> This was due to default CPU bounded kworker workqueue for virtchnl message
> processing being starved by aggressive userspace load causing the
> virtchnl processing to be delayed and causing a transaction timeout.
> The reason the virtchnl process kworker was stalled as it
> was bound to CPU0 by default and there was immense IRQ traffic to CPU0.
> All of the above with an aggressive user space process on the same core
> lead to the change from Marco Leogrande to convert the idpf workqueues
> to unbound.
> 
> Manoj Vishwanathan (3):
>    idpf: address an rtnl lock splat in tx timeout recovery path
>    idpf: Acquire the lock before accessing the xn->salt
>    idpf: more info during virtchnl transaction time out
> 
> Marco Leogrande (1):
>    idpf: convert workqueues to unbound
> 
> Willem de Bruijn (1):
>    idpf: warn on possible ctlq overflow
> 
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c   | 15 ++++++++-----
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c   | 14 ++++++++++++-
>   .../net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c   | 21 ++++++++++++++-----
>   3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>