Re: 3.7.8/amd64 full interrupt hangs due to iwlwifi under big nfs copies out

Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20T16:55:31Z

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 17:20 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 07:11 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 10:15 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > > OTOH, this affects the protocol, and when you really can't allocate any
> > > order-1 pages you pointed out yourself that many other things also won't
> > > work, so I'm not really sure it makes a big difference if we change the
> > > driver?
> >
> > It will make a huge difference, even on non pressure mode, as TCP
> > receive window will grow twice faster.
>
> Hmm, why does that depend on the allocation size?

I guess you missed all the patches about skb->truesize on netdev

>
> > Unless wifi speed reaches 10Gbps, following patch should do the trick
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rx.c
> > index a4eed20..77a3ee3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rx.c
> > @@ -750,7 +750,12 @@ static void iwlagn_pass_packet_to_mac80211(struct iwl_priv *priv,
> > /* Dont use dev_alloc_skb(), we'll have enough headroom once
> > * ieee80211_hdr pulled.
> > */
> > - skb = alloc_skb(128, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + fraglen = 128;
> > + /* if we use order-1 pages, copy to get better TCP performance */
> > + if (rxb->truesize > PAGE_SIZE)
> > + fraglen = max_t(unsigned, fraglen, len);
> > +
> > + skb = alloc_skb(fraglen, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> Hmm, I don't quite understand -- that's not doing any copy?
>
> FWIW if you do the copy you should not "steal" the pages, then they'd be
> recycled in the RX ring right away.

Code should just works, please read the following lines in the same
function....

/* If frame is small enough to fit in skb->head, pull it completely.
* If not, only pull ieee80211_hdr so that splice() or TCP coalesce
* are more efficient.
*/
hdrlen = (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) ? len : sizeof(*hdr);

memcpy(skb_put(skb, hdrlen), hdr, hdrlen);
fraglen = len - hdrlen;

if (fraglen) {
int offset = (void *)hdr + hdrlen -
rxb_addr(rxb) + rxb_offset(rxb);

skb_add_rx_frag(skb, 0, rxb_steal_page(rxb), offset,
fraglen, rxb->truesize);
}

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