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

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 20:31:14 EST


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.

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++;
-
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