[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net v3] ixgbe: fix double clean of tx descriptors with xdp

[Björn Töpel]

On 2019-08-22 19:32, William Tu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:21 AM Alexander Duyck
> <alexander.duyck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:12 AM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tx code doesn't clear the descriptors' status after cleaning.
>>> So, if the budget is larger than number of used elems in a ring, some
>>> descriptors will be accounted twice and xsk_umem_complete_tx will move
>>> prod_tail far beyond the prod_head breaking the completion queue ring.
>>>
>>> Fix that by limiting the number of descriptors to clean by the number
>>> of used descriptors in the tx ring.
>>>
>>> 'ixgbe_clean_xdp_tx_irq()' function refactored to look more like
>>> 'ixgbe_xsk_clean_tx_ring()' since we're allowed to directly use
>>> 'next_to_clean' and 'next_to_use' indexes.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 8221c5eba8c1 ("ixgbe: add AF_XDP zero-copy Tx support")
>>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Version 3:
>>>    * Reverted some refactoring made for v2.
>>>    * Eliminated 'budget' for tx clean.
>>>    * prefetch returned.
>>>
>>> Version 2:
>>>    * 'ixgbe_clean_xdp_tx_irq()' refactored to look more like
>>>      'ixgbe_xsk_clean_tx_ring()'.
>>>
>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c | 29 ++++++++------------
>>>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> Thanks for addressing my concerns.
>>
>> Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Tested-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
> 

Will, thanks for testing! For this patch, did you notice any performance
degradation?


Cheers,
Björn