[PATCH RFC] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent

[PATCH RFC] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

schedule_timeout_* takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
passing in a constant which makes this timeout HZ dependent, so pass it
through msecs_to_jiffies() to fix this up.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
---

Problem found by coccinelle script

The below patch sets the timeout to 100ms - it is not clear though if this
is the intent or if it should be longer/shorter as it is not clear
what HZ setting was assumed during design and used for testing.
This needs an ack by someone who knows the driver and can confirm that
100ms is reasonable to wait for draining in-flight packets.

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_LIQUIDIO=m

Patch is against 4.8.0-rc2 (localversion-next is -next-20160822)

 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
index 20d6942..bdd6c82 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static inline void pcierror_quiesce_device(struct octeon_device *oct)
 	force_io_queues_off(oct);
 
 	/* To allow for in-flight requests */
-	schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(100);
+	schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(100));
 
 	if (wait_for_pending_requests(oct))
 		dev_err(&oct->pci_dev->dev, "There were pending requests\n");
-- 
2.1.4

RE: [PATCH RFC] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent

[Chickles, Derek]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Mc Guire [mailto:hofrat@osadl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:57 PM
> To: Chickles, Derek
> Cc: Burla, Satananda; Manlunas, Felix; Vatsavayi, Raghu;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Nicholas Mc Guire
> Subject: [PATCH RFC] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent
> 
> schedule_timeout_* takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
> passing in a constant which makes this timeout HZ dependent, so pass it
> through msecs_to_jiffies() to fix this up.
> 
> Fixes: commit b0d66369edcd ("liquidio VF error handling")
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
> ---
> 
> Problem found by coccinelle spatch
> 
> The current wait time can vary by a factor 10 depending on the HZ
> setting chose, which does not seem reasonable here.
> 
> The below patch sets the timeout to 100ms - it is though not clear
> if this is the intent or if it should be longer/shorter as it is not
> clear what HZ setting was assumed during design and used for testing.
> 
> This needs an ack by someone who knows the device and can confirm that
> 100ms is reasonable to wait for completion of in-flight requests.

Yes, 100ms was the intent here.

Thanks for catching this.

Derek

[PATCH RFC] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

schedule_timeout_* takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
passing in a constant which makes this timeout HZ dependent, so pass it
through msecs_to_jiffies() to fix this up.

Fixes: commit b0d66369edcd ("liquidio VF error handling")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
---

Problem found by coccinelle spatch

The current wait time can vary by a factor 10 depending on the HZ
setting chose, which does not seem reasonable here.

The below patch sets the timeout to 100ms - it is though not clear
if this is the intent or if it should be longer/shorter as it is not
clear what HZ setting was assumed during design and used for testing.

This needs an ack by someone who knows the device and can confirm that
100ms is reasonable to wait for completion of in-flight requests.

Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_LIQUIDIO_VF=m

Patch is against 4.9.0 (localversion-next is -next-20161216)

 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
index 70d96c1..eca469e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static void pcierror_quiesce_device(struct octeon_device *oct)
 	 */
 
 	/* To allow for in-flight requests */
-	schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(100);
+	schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(100));
 
 	if (wait_for_pending_requests(oct))
 		dev_err(&oct->pci_dev->dev, "There were pending requests\n");
-- 
2.1.4