Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: usb: cdc_ncm: don't spew notifications

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:26:23 -0800 Grant Grundler wrote:
> RTL8156 sends notifications about every 32ms.
> Only display/log notifications when something changes.
> 
> This issue has been reported by others:
> 	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1832472
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/27/1083
> 
> ...
> [785962.779840] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
> [785962.929944] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8156, bcdDevice=30.00
> [785962.929949] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=6
> [785962.929952] usb 1-1: Product: USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN
> [785962.929954] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
> [785962.929956] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 000000001
> [785962.991755] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
> [785963.017068] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0: MAC-Address: 00:24:27:88:08:15
> [785963.017072] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0: setting rx_max = 16384
> [785963.017169] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0: setting tx_max = 16384
> [785963.017682] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0 usb0: register 'cdc_ncm' at usb-0000:00:14.0-1, CDC NCM, 00:24:27:88:08:15
> [785963.019211] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ncm
> [785963.023856] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
> [785963.025461] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_mbim
> [785963.038824] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0 enx002427880815: renamed from usb0
> [785963.089586] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0 enx002427880815: network connection: disconnected
> [785963.121673] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0 enx002427880815: network connection: disconnected
> [785963.153682] cdc_ncm 1-1:2.0 enx002427880815: network connection: disconnected
> ...
> 
> This is about 2KB per second and will overwrite all contents of a 1MB
> dmesg buffer in under 10 minutes rendering them useless for debugging
> many kernel problems.
> 
> This is also an extra 180 MB/day in /var/logs (or 1GB per week) rendering
> the majority of those logs useless too.
> 
> When the link is up (expected state), spew amount is >2x higher:
> ...
> [786139.600992] cdc_ncm 2-1:2.0 enx002427880815: network connection: connected
> [786139.632997] cdc_ncm 2-1:2.0 enx002427880815: 2500 mbit/s downlink 2500 mbit/s uplink
> [786139.665097] cdc_ncm 2-1:2.0 enx002427880815: network connection: connected
> [786139.697100] cdc_ncm 2-1:2.0 enx002427880815: 2500 mbit/s downlink 2500 mbit/s uplink
> [786139.729094] cdc_ncm 2-1:2.0 enx002427880815: network connection: connected
> [786139.761108] cdc_ncm 2-1:2.0 enx002427880815: 2500 mbit/s downlink 2500 mbit/s uplink
> ...
> 
> Chrome OS cannot support RTL8156 until this is fixed.

> @@ -1867,7 +1876,8 @@ static void cdc_ncm_status(struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb)
>  		 * USB_CDC_NOTIFY_NETWORK_CONNECTION notification shall be
>  		 * sent by device after USB_CDC_NOTIFY_SPEED_CHANGE.
>  		 */
> -		usbnet_link_change(dev, !!event->wValue, 0);
> +		if (netif_carrier_ok(dev->net) != !!event->wValue)
> +			usbnet_link_change(dev, !!event->wValue, 0);
>  		break;
>  
>  	case USB_CDC_NOTIFY_SPEED_CHANGE:

Thanks for the patch, this looks like an improvement over:

59b4a8fa27f5 ("CDC-NCM: remove "connected" log message")

right? Should we bring the "network connection: connected" message back?


Do you want all of these patches to be applied to 5.11 and backported?
Feels to me like the last one is a fix and the rest can go into -next,
WDYT?