Re: [PATCH] r8169: use RxFIFO overflow workaround for 8168c chipset

[Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 18:28 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> :
> [...]
> > The test case was: Migration of the several kvm guests at the same time
> > between two hosts.
> 
> :o(
> 
> Could you check if simply leaving the irq handler when status == RxFIFOOver
> works by any chance ?
It does not help, I tried two versions:
1) Simply leave the loop (only "break;") when status == RxFIFOOver
...
if (unlikely(status & RxFIFOOver)) {
	static int rxfifo_count = 0; 
        printk("r8169: Rx FIFO overflows detected: %d\n", 
        	++rxfifo_count);
	break;
}
...

2) the same but with interrupt confirmation before leave
...
if (unlikely(status & RxFIFOOver)) {
	static int rxfifo_count = 0; 
        printk("r8169: Rx FIFO overflows detected: %d\n", 
        	++rxfifo_count);
	RTL_W16(IntrStatus,
		(status & RxFIFOOver) ?
		 (status | RxOverflow) : status);
	break;
}
...

In both cases the NIC continues in generating Rx FIFO overflows.

Ivan

> 
> Faced with pktgen, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_26 spits RxFIFO overflow errors quite
> fast (10000 packets kill it, reliably). The same fix as your avoids the crash.
> 
> As is, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 seems to survive at 900kpps. It signals RXFIFO
> overflow, loses half the packets and sends pause control frames but it does
> not crash. I have made it leave the irq handler when status == RxFIFOOver.
> I'll see if it can stand a few hours like that.
>