Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2] e1000e: Fix real-time violations on link up

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

[Cc: +PCI folks]

Dear Gerhard,


Thank you for your patch.


Am 08.12.24 um 19:49 schrieb Gerhard Engleder:
> From: Gerhard Engleder <eg@keba.com>
> 
> From: Gerhard Engleder <eg@keba.com>

The from line is present twice. No idea, if git is going to remove both.

> Link down and up triggers update of MTA table. This update executes many
> PCIe writes and a final flush. Thus, PCIe will be blocked until all writes
> are flushed. As a result, DMA transfers of other targets suffer from delay
> in the range of 50us. This results in timing violations on real-time
> systems during link down and up of e1000e.
> 
> A flush after a low enough number of PCIe writes eliminates the delay
> but also increases the time needed for MTA table update. The following
> measurements were done on i3-2310E with e1000e for 128 MTA table entries:
> 
> Single flush after all writes: 106us
> Flush after every write:       429us
> Flush after every 2nd write:   266us
> Flush after every 4th write:   180us
> Flush after every 8th write:   141us
> Flush after every 16th write:  121us
> 
> A flush after every 8th write delays the link up by 35us and the
> negative impact to DMA transfers of other targets is still tolerable.
> 
> Execute a flush after every 8th write. This prevents overloading the
> interconnect with posted writes.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
> CC: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@intel.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f8fe665a-5e6c-4f95-b47a-2f3281aa0e6c@lunn.ch/T/
> Signed-off-by: Gerhard Engleder <eg@keba.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - remove PREEMPT_RT dependency (Andrew Lunn, Przemek Kitszel)
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c
> index d7df2a0ed629..7d1482a9effd 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c
> @@ -331,8 +331,13 @@ void e1000e_update_mc_addr_list_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw,
>   	}
>   
>   	/* replace the entire MTA table */
> -	for (i = hw->mac.mta_reg_count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
> +	for (i = hw->mac.mta_reg_count - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>   		E1000_WRITE_REG_ARRAY(hw, E1000_MTA, i, hw->mac.mta_shadow[i]);
> +
> +		/* do not queue up too many writes */

Maybe make the comment more elaborate?

> +		if ((i % 8) == 0 && i != 0)
> +			e1e_flush();
> +	}
>   	e1e_flush();
>   }


Kind regards,

Paul