Re: [PATCH] net: fec: Detect and recover receive queue hangs

[Chris Lesiak]

On 11/18/2016 12:44 AM, Andy Duan wrote:
> From: Chris Lesiak <chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 5:15 AM
>  >To: Andy Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
>  >Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jaccon
>  >Bastiaansen <jaccon.bastiaansen@xxxxxxxxx>; chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx
>  >Subject: [PATCH] net: fec: Detect and recover receive queue hangs
>  >
>  >This corrects a problem that appears to be similar to ERR006358.  But while
>  >ERR006358 is a race when the tx queue transitions from empty to not empty,
>  >this problem is a race when the rx queue transitions from full to not full.
>  >
>  >The symptom is a receive queue that is stuck.  The ENET_RDAR register will
>  >read 0, indicating that there are no empty receive descriptors in the receive
>  >ring.  Since no additional frames can be queued, no RXF interrupts occur.
>  >
>  >This problem can be triggered with a 1 Gb link and about 400 Mbps of traffic.

I can cause the error by running the following on an imx6q: iperf -s -u
And sending packets from the other end of a 1 Gbps link:
iperf -c $IPADDR -u -b40000pps

A few others have seen this problem.
See: https://community.nxp.com/thread/322882

>  >
>  >This patch detects this condition, sets the work_rx bit, and reschedules the
>  >poll method.
>  >
>  >Signed-off-by: Chris Lesiak <chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx>
>  >---
>  > drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 31
>  >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  > 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>  >
> Firstly, how to reproduce the issue, pls list the reproduce steps. Thanks.
> Secondly, pls check below comments.
>
>  >diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>  >b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>  >index fea0f33..8a87037 100644
>  >--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>  >+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
>  >@@ -1588,6 +1588,34 @@ fec_enet_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  > 	return ret;
>  > }
>  >
>  >+static inline bool
>  >+fec_enet_recover_rxq(struct fec_enet_private *fep, u16 queue_id) {
>  >+	int work_bit = (queue_id == 0) ? 2 : ((queue_id == 1) ? 0 : 1);
>  >+
>  >+	if (readl(fep->rx_queue[queue_id]->bd.reg_desc_active))
> If rx ring is really empty in slight throughput cases,  rdar is always cleared, then there always do napi reschedule.

I think that you are concerned that if rdar is zero due to this hardware
problem,
but the rx ring is actually empty, then fec_enet_rx_queue will never do
a write
to rdar so that it can be non-zero.  That will cause napi to always be
resceduled.

I suppose that might be the case with zero rx traffic, and I was
concerned that
it might be true even when there was rx traffic.  I suspected that the
hardware,
seeing that rdar is zero, would never queue another packet, even if
there were
in fact empty descriptors.  But it doesn't seem to be the case.  It does
reschedule
multiple times, but eventually sees some packets in the rx ring and
recovers.

I admit that I do not completely understand how that can happen.  I did
confirm
that fec_enet_active_rxring is not being called.

Maybe someone with a deeper understanding of the fec than I can provide an
explanation.

>
>  >+		return false;
>  >+
>  >+	dev_notice_once(&fep->pdev->dev, "Recovered rx queue\n");
>  >+
>  >+	fep->work_rx |= 1 << work_bit;
>  >+
>  >+	return true;
>  >+}
>  >+
>  >+static inline bool fec_enet_recover_rxqs(struct fec_enet_private *fep)
>  >+{
>  >+	unsigned int q;
>  >+	bool ret = false;
>  >+
>  >+	for (q = 0; q < fep->num_rx_queues; q++) {
>  >+		if (fec_enet_recover_rxq(fep, q))
>  >+			ret = true;
>  >+	}
>  >+
>  >+	return ret;
>  >+}
>  >+
>  > static int fec_enet_rx_napi(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)  {
>  > 	struct net_device *ndev = napi->dev;
>  >@@ -1601,6 +1629,9 @@ static int fec_enet_rx_napi(struct napi_struct *napi,
>  >int budget)
>  > 	if (pkts < budget) {
>  > 		napi_complete(napi);
>  > 		writel(FEC_DEFAULT_IMASK, fep->hwp + FEC_IMASK);
>  >+
>  >+		if (fec_enet_recover_rxqs(fep) && napi_reschedule(napi))
>  >+			writel(FEC_NAPI_IMASK, fep->hwp + FEC_IMASK);
>  > 	}
>  > 	return pkts;
>  > }
>  >--
>  >2.5.5
>


-- 
Chris Lesiak
Principal Design Engineer, Software
LI-COR Biosciences
chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx

Any opinions expressed are those of the author and
do not necessarily represent those of his employer.