On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:39 +0000, Sathya Perla wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn [mailto:jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn]
> > 
> > 
> > From: Li Fengmao <li.fengmao@zte.com.cn>
> > 
> > There will be packet drop with kernel param "swiotlb = force" on
> > Emulex 10Gb NIC using be2net driver. The problem is caused by
> > receiving skb without calling pci_unmap_page() in get_rx_page_info().
> > rx_page_info->last_page_user is initialized to false in
> > be_post_rx_frags() when current frag are mapped in the first half of
> > the same page with another frag. But in that case with
> > "swiotlb = force" param, data can not be copied into the page of
> > rx_page_info without calling pci_unmap_page, so the data frag mapped
> > in the first half of the page will be dropped.
> > 
> > It can be solved by creating only a mapping relation between frag
> > and page, and deleting rx_page_info->last_page_user to ensure
> > calling pci_unmap_page when handling each receiving frag.
> 
> This patch uses an entire page for each RX frag (whose default size is 2048).
> Consequently, on platforms like ppc64 where the default PAGE_SIZE is 64K,
> memory usage becomes very inefficient.
> 
> Instead, I've tried a partial-page mapping scheme. This retains the
> page sharing logic, but un-maps each frag separately so that
> the data is copied from the bounce buffers.
[...]

You don't need to map/unmap each fragment separately; you can sync a
sub-page range with dma_sync_single_for_cpu().

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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