Re: 2.6.24-rc3, 4GB RAM, swiotlb, r8169, out of space

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Sunday 25 November 2007 01:27:54 Francois Romieu wrote:
> Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> > Alistair John Strachan <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> > [...]
> >
> > > The "choke" affects other devices on the system too, notably libata,
> > > which does not recover gracefully. In my logs, I see a stream of:
> > >
> > > DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 7222 bytes at device 0000:04:00.0
> > > DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 7222 bytes at device 0000:04:00.0
> >
> > You are using jumbo frames, aren't you ?
>
> See below for my late night crap. At least it should avoid the driver
> issuing Rx/Tx DMA with the single static buffer of lib/swiotlb.c
> (io_tlb_overflow_buffer). Ghee.

No improvement. It might be possible to reproduce the problem on your end if 
you add iommu support and force enable the swiotlb (which should be possible 
even with <4GB RAM).

> diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> index 1f647b9..72a7370 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
> @@ -2262,10 +2262,16 @@ static struct sk_buff *rtl8169_alloc_rx_skb(struct
> pci_dev *pdev, mapping = pci_map_single(pdev, skb->data, rx_buf_sz,
>  				 PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>
> +	if (pci_dma_mapping_error(mapping))
> +		goto err_kfree_skb;
> +
>  	rtl8169_map_to_asic(desc, mapping, rx_buf_sz);
>  out:
>  	return skb;
>
> +err_kfree_skb:
> +	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> +	skb = NULL;
>  err_out:
>  	rtl8169_make_unusable_by_asic(desc);
>  	goto out;
> @@ -2486,6 +2492,7 @@ static int rtl8169_xmit_frags(struct rtl8169_private
> *tp, struct sk_buff *skb, dma_addr_t mapping;
>  		u32 status, len;
>  		void *addr;
> +		int rc;
>
>  		entry = (entry + 1) % NUM_TX_DESC;
>
> @@ -2493,6 +2500,22 @@ static int rtl8169_xmit_frags(struct rtl8169_private
> *tp, struct sk_buff *skb, len = frag->size;
>  		addr = ((void *) page_address(frag->page)) + frag->page_offset;
>  		mapping = pci_map_single(tp->pci_dev, addr, len, PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +		rc = pci_dma_mapping_error(mapping);
> +		if (unlikely(rc < 0)) {
> +			while (cur_frag-- > 0) {
> +				frag = info->frags + cur_frag;
> +				entry = (entry - 1) % NUM_TX_DESC;
> +				txd = tp->TxDescArray + entry;
> +				len = frag->size;
> +				mapping = le64_to_cpu(txd->addr);
> +				pci_unmap_single(tp->pci_dev, mapping, len,
> +						 PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +				txd->opts1 = 0x00;
> +				txd->opts2 = 0x00;
> +				txd->addr = 0x00;
> +			}
> +			return rc;
> +		}
>
>  		/* anti gcc 2.95.3 bugware (sic) */
>  		status = opts1 | len | (RingEnd * !((entry + 1) % NUM_TX_DESC));
> @@ -2534,13 +2557,13 @@ static inline u32 rtl8169_tso_csum(struct sk_buff
> *skb, struct net_device *dev) static int rtl8169_start_xmit(struct sk_buff
> *skb, struct net_device *dev) {
>  	struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
> -	unsigned int frags, entry = tp->cur_tx % NUM_TX_DESC;
> +	unsigned int entry = tp->cur_tx % NUM_TX_DESC;
>  	struct TxDesc *txd = tp->TxDescArray + entry;
>  	void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr;
>  	dma_addr_t mapping;
>  	u32 status, len;
>  	u32 opts1;
> -	int ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
> +	int frags, ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
>
>  	if (unlikely(TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags)) {
>  		if (netif_msg_drv(tp)) {
> @@ -2557,7 +2580,11 @@ static int rtl8169_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct net_device *dev) opts1 = DescOwn | rtl8169_tso_csum(skb, dev);
>
>  	frags = rtl8169_xmit_frags(tp, skb, opts1);
> -	if (frags) {
> +	if (frags < 0) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: PCI mapping failure (%d).\n", dev->name,
> +		       frags);
> +		goto err_busy;
> +	} else if (frags > 0) {
>  		len = skb_headlen(skb);
>  		opts1 |= FirstFrag;
>  	} else {
> @@ -2605,6 +2632,7 @@ out:
>
>  err_stop:
>  	netif_stop_queue(dev);
> +err_busy:
>  	ret = NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>  err_update_stats:
>  	dev->stats.tx_dropped++;

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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