Re: [PATCH net 1/4] net: ravb: Count packets instead of descriptors in R-Car RX path

[Paul Barker]

On 14/04/2024 13:08, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for your patch.
> 
> On 2024-04-11 12:44:30 +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
>> The units of "work done" in the RX path should be packets instead of
>> descriptors.
>>
>> Descriptors which are used by the hardware to record error conditions or
>> are empty in the case of a DMA mapping error should not count towards
>> our RX work budget.
>>
>> Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 20 ++++++++------------
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> index ba01c8cc3c90..70f2900648d4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> @@ -892,29 +892,25 @@ static bool ravb_rx_rcar(struct net_device *ndev, int *quota, int q)
>>  	struct ravb_private *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
>>  	const struct ravb_hw_info *info = priv->info;
>>  	int entry = priv->cur_rx[q] % priv->num_rx_ring[q];
>> -	int boguscnt = (priv->dirty_rx[q] + priv->num_rx_ring[q]) -
>> -			priv->cur_rx[q];
>>  	struct net_device_stats *stats = &priv->stats[q];
>>  	struct ravb_ex_rx_desc *desc;
>>  	struct sk_buff *skb;
>>  	dma_addr_t dma_addr;
>>  	struct timespec64 ts;
>> +	int rx_packets = 0;
>>  	u8  desc_status;
>>  	u16 pkt_len;
>>  	int limit;
>> +	int i;
> 
> The loop variable can never be negative, use unsigned int.

I matched the type we're comparing against - should we also convert
limit to an unsigned int?

> 
>>  
>> -	boguscnt = min(boguscnt, *quota);
>> -	limit = boguscnt;
>> +	limit = priv->dirty_rx[q] + priv->num_rx_ring[q] - priv->cur_rx[q];
>>  	desc = &priv->rx_ring[q].ex_desc[entry];
>> -	while (desc->die_dt != DT_FEMPTY) {
>> +	for (i = 0; i < limit && rx_packets < *quota && desc->die_dt != DT_FEMPTY; i++) {
>>  		/* Descriptor type must be checked before all other reads */
>>  		dma_rmb();
>>  		desc_status = desc->msc;
>>  		pkt_len = le16_to_cpu(desc->ds_cc) & RX_DS;
>>  
>> -		if (--boguscnt < 0)
>> -			break;
>> -
> 
> nit: It's a matter of taste, but I like this break condition in the code 
> instead of modifying the loop as it's much clearer what's going on. But 
> feel free to keep it as is as Sergey likes it.
> 
>>  		/* We use 0-byte descriptors to mark the DMA mapping errors */
>>  		if (!pkt_len)
>>  			continue;
>> @@ -960,7 +956,7 @@ static bool ravb_rx_rcar(struct net_device *ndev, int *quota, int q)
>>  			if (ndev->features & NETIF_F_RXCSUM)
>>  				ravb_rx_csum(skb);
>>  			napi_gro_receive(&priv->napi[q], skb);
>> -			stats->rx_packets++;
>> +			rx_packets++;
> 
> Why do you add this intermediary variable? Is it not confusing to treat 
> rx_packets and rx_bytes differently? Why not instead decrement *quota 
> here?

To me, it's simpler to count received packets once instead of twice
inside the loop (once by incrementing stats->rx_packets, a second time
by decrementing *quota). This also makes future refactoring simpler as
we already have the rx_packets count which we will need to be able to
return so that we can properly track work done in ravb_poll().

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

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