From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>,
<scrum-linux@solarflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] sfc: Only use TX push if a single descriptor is to be written
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:48:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363110519.2780.15.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363110445.2780.14.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Using TX push when notifying the NIC of multiple new descriptors in
the ring will very occasionally cause the TX DMA engine to re-use an
old descriptor. This can result in a duplicated or partly duplicated
packet (new headers with old data), or an IOMMU page fault. This does
not happen when the pushed descriptor is the only one written.
TX push also provides little latency benefit when a packet requires
more than one descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c
index 0ad790c..eaa8e87 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ efx_may_push_tx_desc(struct efx_tx_queue *tx_queue, unsigned int write_count)
return false;
tx_queue->empty_read_count = 0;
- return ((empty_read_count ^ write_count) & ~EFX_EMPTY_COUNT_VALID) == 0;
+ return ((empty_read_count ^ write_count) & ~EFX_EMPTY_COUNT_VALID) == 0
+ && tx_queue->write_count - write_count == 1;
}
/* For each entry inserted into the software descriptor ring, create a
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-12 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 17:47 Pull request: sfc 2013-03-12 Ben Hutchings
2013-03-12 17:48 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-03-13 9:17 ` David Miller
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