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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Tomas Melin <tomas.melin@vaisala.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nicolas.ferre@microchip.com,
	claudiu.beznea@microchip.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macb: Restart tx only if queue pointer is lagging
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:31:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220331113135.025460c1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220325065012.279642-1-tomas.melin@vaisala.com>

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:50:12 +0200 Tomas Melin wrote:
> commit 5ea9c08a8692 ("net: macb: restart tx after tx used bit read")

Ooh, I just noticed the commit ID here is from the stable tree.
Please change it to the original commit ID, so 4298388574da
and repost once the discussion settles.

> added support for restarting transmission. Restarting tx does not work
> in case controller asserts TXUBR interrupt and TQBP is already at the end
> of the tx queue. In that situation, restarting tx will immediately cause
> assertion of another TXUBR interrupt. The driver will end up in an infinite
> interrupt loop which it cannot break out of.
> 
> For cases where TQBP is at the end of the tx queue, instead
> only clear TXUBR interrupt. As more data gets pushed to the queue,
> transmission will resume.
> 
> This issue was observed on a Xilinx Zynq based board. During stress test of
> the network interface, driver would get stuck on interrupt loop
> within seconds or minutes causing CPU to stall.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-31 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-25  6:50 [PATCH] net: macb: Restart tx only if queue pointer is lagging Tomas Melin
2022-03-25  8:57 ` Claudiu.Beznea
2022-03-25  9:35   ` Tomas Melin
2022-03-25 13:41     ` Claudiu.Beznea
2022-03-25 14:41       ` Tomas Melin
2022-03-25 15:19         ` Claudiu.Beznea
2022-03-28  4:16           ` Melin Tomas
2022-03-30 14:27             ` Claudiu.Beznea
2022-03-31 10:08               ` Tomas Melin
2022-03-31 18:31 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]

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