[PATCH net] bnxt_en: Prevent queue stop with deferred completions
From: Joe Damato
Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 19:10:17 EST
When the driver receives a burst of packets, it can mark a BD with the
NO_CMPL bit to defer completions. The expectation is that the last
packet in the ring will have this bit unset and the completion generated
by that packet will cleanup that packet and the ones preceding it. This
helps to reduce the number of completions fired.
The suppressed completions are controlled by the driver and the number
of packets with suppressed completions scales with the size of the ring.
SW USO packets, on the other hand, have an upper bound on the maximum
number of BDs which can be consumed which does not scale with the ring
size.
So, for small rings it is possible that: a burst of packets is handed to
the driver, the driver defers completions for all of the packets because
the number of free descriptors stays above the threshold in the driver.
Then, a USO packet arrives, but the number of BDs available is not
enough and the USO code exits early with NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
In this case, you end up in a state where the ring is full of packets
with their completions suppressed, which can cause the queue to stop and
never be restarted.
Assuming default CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS, this is only possible for small
rings (<= 457 descriptors, below the driver default value) when
a burst of packets fills the ring, followed by a large USO packet that
can't fit. For larger rings, the delta between the completion
suppression threshold and the BDs required for SW USO is large enough
that completions will fire and this case is unreachable.
This issue was pointed out by Sashiko and while it seems fairly unlikely
given that the queue size must be small to trigger this, it is indeed
possible.
Fix this by tracking the last BD which deferred completions. If SW USO
exits early and there is a doorbell pending, enable completions for the
last packet in the ring with disabled completions. This ensures that a
completion will be generated and avoids stopping the queue with no way
to start it again.
Fixes: cc5d90667db8 ("net: bnxt: Implement software USO")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v7.1+: 4e15e89faac9: net: bnxt: ring the doorbell when SW USO exits early
Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <joe@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
index d59bcca73a2b..8ab5acd5bee6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t bnxt_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
if (free_size >= bp->tx_wake_thresh)
txbd0->tx_bd_len_flags_type |=
cpu_to_le32(TX_BD_FLAGS_NO_CMPL);
+ txr->kick_prod = txr->tx_prod - (last_frag + 2);
txr->kick_pending = 1;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
index ab894f8addef..e2fa90740d61 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
@@ -993,6 +993,7 @@ struct bnxt_tx_ring_info {
u16 txq_index;
u8 tx_napi_idx;
u8 kick_pending;
+ u16 kick_prod;
struct bnxt_db_info tx_db;
struct tx_bd *tx_desc_ring[MAX_TX_PAGES];
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c
index f7e18bea0fb8..f9bf77bffea7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_gso.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ netdev_tx_t bnxt_sw_udp_gso_xmit(struct bnxt *bp,
if (unlikely(bnxt_tx_avail(bp, txr) < bds_needed)) {
netif_txq_try_stop(txq, bnxt_tx_avail(bp, txr),
bp->tx_wake_thresh);
- return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+ goto tx_busy;
}
/* BD backpressure alone cannot prevent overwriting in-flight
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ netdev_tx_t bnxt_sw_udp_gso_xmit(struct bnxt *bp,
*/
if (!netif_txq_maybe_stop(txq, bnxt_inline_avail(txr),
num_segs, num_segs))
- return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
+ goto tx_busy;
if (unlikely(tso_dma_map_init(&map, &pdev->dev, skb, hdr_len)))
goto drop;
@@ -235,4 +235,17 @@ netdev_tx_t bnxt_sw_udp_gso_xmit(struct bnxt *bp,
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(bp->dev);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+
+tx_busy:
+ if (txr->kick_pending) {
+ u16 kick_prod = txr->kick_prod;
+ struct tx_bd *txbd0;
+
+ txbd0 = &txr->tx_desc_ring[TX_RING(bp, kick_prod)]
+ [TX_IDX(kick_prod)];
+ txbd0->tx_bd_len_flags_type &=
+ cpu_to_le32(~TX_BD_FLAGS_NO_CMPL);
+ }
+
+ return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
}
base-commit: e2a6641e3bfde58f2284f9859c2b0fdcc6d1c0da
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2.53.0-Meta