[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ixgbe: reset next_to_clean and next_to_use when we reset the head and tail

Alexander Duyck alexander.duyck at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 18:22:28 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:43 AM Sebastian Basierski
<sebastianx.basierski at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Only reset the next_to_clean and next_to_use values when we are resetting
> the head and tail hardware registers.  This way we can avoid having
> multiple functions doing the reset work and can more easily track the
> correlation between the registers and these values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Basierski <sebastianx.basierski at intel.com>

The next_to_use and next_to_clean values should reflect the value of
the software state and not be directly tied to hardware. In theory the
hardware registers should follow them, not the other way around.

The problem is the Tx and Rx ring cleanup code doesn't actually clear
the ring memory as I recall. Instead it is leaving it untouched and
updating the next_to_clean and next_to_use values to indicate the ring
is empty. It is only when the next_to_use value is updated in init
that we reinitialize the descriptors and buffer info structures. The
general idea is that we want to do as little memory updating as
possible in both init and shutdown paths so that we can bring the
rings up and down as quickly as possible and doing this achieved that.

This is the reason why we update each rings next_to_use/next_to_clean
values in the setup_tx/rx_resources and clean_tx/rx_ring is because we
update it once when the resources are allocated, and again when the
have been cleared.

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 25 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> index 27a8546c88b2..0e83f5e8973d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> @@ -3482,10 +3482,16 @@ void ixgbe_configure_tx_ring(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
>         IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDBAH(reg_idx), (tdba >> 32));
>         IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDLEN(reg_idx),
>                         ring->count * sizeof(union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc));
> +
> +       /* reset head and tail pointers */
>         IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDH(reg_idx), 0);
>         IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDT(reg_idx), 0);
>         ring->tail = adapter->io_addr + IXGBE_TDT(reg_idx);
>
> +       /* reset ntu and ntc to place SW in sync with hardwdare */
> +       ring->next_to_clean = 0;
> +       ring->next_to_use = 0;
> +
>         /*
>          * set WTHRESH to encourage burst writeback, it should not be set
>          * higher than 1 when:
> @@ -4046,10 +4052,16 @@ void ixgbe_configure_rx_ring(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
>         /* Force flushing of IXGBE_RDLEN to prevent MDD */
>         IXGBE_WRITE_FLUSH(hw);
>
> +       /* reset head and tail pointers */
>         IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_RDH(reg_idx), 0);
>         IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_RDT(reg_idx), 0);
>         ring->tail = adapter->io_addr + IXGBE_RDT(reg_idx);
>
> +       /* reset ntu and ntc to place SW in sync with hardwdare */
> +       ring->next_to_clean = 0;
> +       ring->next_to_use = 0;
> +       ring->next_to_alloc = 0;
> +
>         ixgbe_configure_srrctl(adapter, ring);
>         ixgbe_configure_rscctl(adapter, ring);
>
> @@ -5238,10 +5250,6 @@ static void ixgbe_clean_rx_ring(struct ixgbe_ring *rx_ring)
>                         rx_buffer = rx_ring->rx_buffer_info;
>                 }
>         }
> -
> -       rx_ring->next_to_alloc = 0;
> -       rx_ring->next_to_clean = 0;
> -       rx_ring->next_to_use = 0;
>  }
>
>  static int ixgbe_fwd_ring_up(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
> @@ -5933,10 +5941,6 @@ static void ixgbe_clean_tx_ring(struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring)
>         /* reset BQL for queue */
>         if (!ring_is_xdp(tx_ring))
>                 netdev_tx_reset_queue(txring_txq(tx_ring));
> -
> -       /* reset next_to_use and next_to_clean */
> -       tx_ring->next_to_use = 0;
> -       tx_ring->next_to_clean = 0;
>  }
>
>  /**
> @@ -6369,8 +6373,6 @@ int ixgbe_setup_tx_resources(struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring)
>         if (!tx_ring->desc)
>                 goto err;
>
> -       tx_ring->next_to_use = 0;
> -       tx_ring->next_to_clean = 0;
>         return 0;
>
>  err:
> @@ -6463,9 +6465,6 @@ int ixgbe_setup_rx_resources(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
>         if (!rx_ring->desc)
>                 goto err;
>
> -       rx_ring->next_to_clean = 0;
> -       rx_ring->next_to_use = 0;
> -
>         /* XDP RX-queue info */
>         if (xdp_rxq_info_reg(&rx_ring->xdp_rxq, adapter->netdev,
>                              rx_ring->queue_index) < 0)
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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