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* [bug, bisected] pfifo_fast causes packet reordering
@ 2018-03-13 18:24 Jakob Unterwurzacher
  2018-03-13 18:35 ` Dave Taht
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jakob Unterwurzacher @ 2018-03-13 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev, linux-kernel, John Fastabend, David S. Miller
  Cc: linux-can, Martin Elshuber

During stress-testing our "ucan" USB/CAN adapter SocketCAN driver on 
Linux v4.16-rc4-383-ged58d66f60b3 we observed that a small fraction of 
packets are delivered out-of-order.

We have tracked the problem down to the driver interface level, and it 
seems that the driver's net_device_ops.ndo_start_xmit() function gets 
the packets handed over in the wrong order.

This behavior was not observed on Linux v4.15 and I have bisected the 
problem down to this patch:

> commit c5ad119fb6c09b0297446be05bd66602fa564758
> Author: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Dec 7 09:58:19 2017 -0800
> 
>    net: sched: pfifo_fast use skb_array
> 
>    This converts the pfifo_fast qdisc to use the skb_array data structure
>    and set the lockless qdisc bit. pfifo_fast is the first qdisc to support
>    the lockless bit that can be a child of a qdisc requiring locking. So
>    we add logic to clear the lock bit on initialization in these cases when
>    the qdisc graft operation occurs.
> 
>    This also removes the logic used to pick the next band to dequeue from
>    and instead just checks a per priority array for packets from top priority
>    to lowest. This might need to be a bit more clever but seems to work
>    for now.
> 
>    Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
>    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The patch does not revert cleanly, but moving to one commit earlier 
makes the problem go away.

Selecting the "fq" scheduler instead of "pfifo_fast" makes the problem 
go away as well.

Is this an unintended side-effect of the patch or is there something the 
driver has to do to request in-order delivery?

Thanks,
Jakob

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2018-03-13 18:24 [bug, bisected] pfifo_fast causes packet reordering Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-13 18:35 ` Dave Taht
2018-03-14  4:03   ` John Fastabend
2018-03-14 10:09     ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-15 18:08     ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-15 22:30       ` John Fastabend
2018-03-16 10:26         ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-19  6:07           ` Alexander Stein
2018-03-19 12:32           ` Paolo Abeni
2018-03-19 12:56             ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-21 10:01           ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-21 18:43             ` John Fastabend
2018-03-21 19:44               ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-21 20:52                 ` John Fastabend
2018-03-22 10:16                   ` Jakob Unterwurzacher
2018-03-24 14:26                     ` John Fastabend

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