[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Fix TX dispatch condition

Akihiko Odaki akihiko.odaki at daynix.com
Thu Oct 13 05:00:44 UTC 2022


e1000_xmit_frame is expected to stop the queue and dispatch frames to
hardware if there is not sufficient space for the next frame in the
buffer, but sometimes it failed to do so because the estimated maxmium
size of frame was wrong. As the consequence, the later invocation of
e1000_xmit_frame failed with NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and the frame in the buffer
remained forever, resulting in a watchdog failure.

This change fixes the estimated size by making it match with the
condition for NETDEV_TX_BUSY. Apparently, the old estimation failed to
account for the following lines which determines the space requirement
for not causing NETDEV_TX_BUSY:
>	/* reserve a descriptor for the offload context */
>	if ((mss) || (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL))
>		count++;
>	count++;
>
>	count += DIV_ROUND_UP(len, adapter->tx_fifo_limit);

This issue was found with http-stress02 test included in Linux Test
Project 20220930.

Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki at daynix.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 321f2a95ae3a..da113f5011e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -5936,9 +5936,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t e1000_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		e1000_tx_queue(tx_ring, tx_flags, count);
 		/* Make sure there is space in the ring for the next send. */
 		e1000_maybe_stop_tx(tx_ring,
-				    (MAX_SKB_FRAGS *
+				    ((MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1) *
 				     DIV_ROUND_UP(PAGE_SIZE,
-						  adapter->tx_fifo_limit) + 2));
+						  adapter->tx_fifo_limit) + 4));
 
 		if (!netdev_xmit_more() ||
 		    netif_xmit_stopped(netdev_get_tx_queue(netdev, 0))) {
-- 
2.37.3



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