[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Refactor MAC address configuration code

Miller, Darin J darin.j.miller at intel.com
Wed Nov 11 23:34:26 UTC 2015



-----Original Message-----
From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at lists.osuosl.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Duyck
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:27 PM
To: netdev at vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Refactor MAC address configuration code

In the process of tracking down a memory leak when adding/removing fdb entries I had to go through the MAC address configuration code for ixgbe.
In the process of doing so I found a number of issues that impacted readability and performance.  This change updates the code in general to clean it up so it becomes clear what each step is doing.  From what I can tell there a couple of bugs cleaned up in this code.

First is the fact that the MAC addresses were being double counted for the PF.  As a result once entries up to 63 had been used you could no longer add additional filters.

A simple test case for this:
  for i in `seq 0 96`
  do
    ip link add link ens8 name mv$i type macvlan
    ip link set dev mv$i up
  done

Test script:
  ethregs -s 0:8.0 | grep -e "RAH" | grep 8000....$

When things are working correctly RAL/H registers 1 - 97 will be consumed.
In the failing case it will stop at 63 and prevent any further filters from being added.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck at mirantis.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h      |    7 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |  163 +++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Darin Miller <darin.j.miller at intel.com>



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