RE: [PATCH net-next v27 07/13] rtase: Implement a function to receive packets

[Larry Chiu <larry.chiu@realtek.com>]

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> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2024 9:55 AM
> To: Justin Lai <justinlai0215@realtek.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v27 07/13] rtase: Implement a function to
> receive packets
> 
> 
> External mail.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:35:33 +0800 Justin Lai wrote:
> > +     if (!delta && workdone)
> > +             netdev_info(dev, "no Rx buffer allocated\n");
> > +
> > +     ring->dirty_idx += delta;
> > +
> > +     if ((ring->dirty_idx + RTASE_NUM_DESC) == ring->cur_idx)
> > +             netdev_emerg(dev, "Rx buffers exhausted\n");
> 
> Memory allocation failures happen, we shouldn't risk spamming the logs.
> I mean these two messages and the one in rtase_alloc_rx_data_buf(),
> the should be removed.
> 
> There is a alloc_fail statistic defined in include/net/netdev_queues.h
> that's the correct way to report buffer allocation failures.

Hi, Jakub,
Can we just count the rx_alloc_fail here?
If we implement the "netdev_stat_ops", we can report this counter.

> And you should have a periodic service task / work which checks for
> buffers being exhausted, and if they are schedule NAPI so that it tries
> to allocate.

We will redefine the rtase_rx_ring_fill() to check the buffers and
try to get page from the pool.
Should we return the budget to schedule this NAPI if there are some
empty buffers?

Thanks,
Larry