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From: Julien Ducourthial <jducourt@free.fr>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] r8169: fix problem with TSO (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL negative value)
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 00:39:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336430367.11363.38.camel@blackbone.local> (raw)

The r8169 may get stuck or show bad behaviour after activating TSO :
the net_device is not stopped when it has no more TX descriptors.
This problem comes from TX_BUFS_AVAIL which may reach -1 when all
transmit descriptors are in use. The patch simply tries to keep positive
values.

Tested with 8111d(onboard) on a D510MO, and with 8111e(onboard) on a
Zotac 890GXITX.

Signed-off-by: Julien Ducourthial <jducourt@free.fr>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index f545093..d1e3c51 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -61,8 +61,12 @@
 #define R8169_MSG_DEFAULT \
 	(NETIF_MSG_DRV | NETIF_MSG_PROBE | NETIF_MSG_IFUP | NETIF_MSG_IFDOWN)
 
-#define TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) \
-	(tp->dirty_tx + NUM_TX_DESC - tp->cur_tx - 1)
+#define TX_SLOTS_AVAIL(tp) \
+	(tp->dirty_tx + NUM_TX_DESC - tp->cur_tx)
+
+/* A skbuff with nr_frags needs nr_frags+1 entries in the tx queue */
+#define TX_FRAGS_READY_FOR(tp,nr_frags) \
+	(TX_SLOTS_AVAIL(tp) >= (nr_frags+1))
 
 /* Maximum number of multicast addresses to filter (vs.
Rx-all-multicast).
    The RTL chips use a 64 element hash table based on the Ethernet CRC.
*/
@@ -5115,7 +5119,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(struct
sk_buff *skb,
 	u32 opts[2];
 	int frags;
 
-	if (unlikely(TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags)) {
+	if (unlikely(!TX_FRAGS_READY_FOR(tp, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags))) {
 		netif_err(tp, drv, dev, "BUG! Tx Ring full when queue awake!\n");
 		goto err_stop_0;
 	}
@@ -5169,7 +5173,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(struct
sk_buff *skb,
 
 	mmiowb();
 
-	if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) < MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
+	if (!TX_FRAGS_READY_FOR(tp, MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
 		/* Avoid wrongly optimistic queue wake-up: rtl_tx thread must
 		 * not miss a ring update when it notices a stopped queue.
 		 */
@@ -5183,7 +5187,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(struct
sk_buff *skb,
 		 * can't.
 		 */
 		smp_mb();
-		if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+		if (TX_FRAGS_READY_FOR(tp, MAX_SKB_FRAGS))
 			netif_wake_queue(dev);
 	}
 
@@ -5306,7 +5310,7 @@ static void rtl_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct
rtl8169_private *tp)
 		 */
 		smp_mb();
 		if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &&
-		    (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
+		    TX_FRAGS_READY_FOR(tp, MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
 			netif_wake_queue(dev);
 		}
 		/*
-- 
1.7.7.6

             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 22:39 Julien Ducourthial [this message]
2012-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH] r8169: fix problem with TSO (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL negative value) Francois Romieu
2012-05-08 10:06   ` Francois Romieu
2012-05-08 10:21     ` Thomas Pilarski
2012-05-09  4:12   ` Alex Villacís Lasso

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