Re: [PATCH net-next] stmmac: align RX buffers

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Drew Fustini <drew@beagleboard.org>,
	Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk>,
	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] stmmac: align RX buffers
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:48:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe5f99c8-5655-7fbb-a64e-b5f067c3273c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8a49idp.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On 8/11/21 4:16 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:53:59 +0100,
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure you do not need to adjust stmmac_set_bfsize(), 
>> stmmac_rx_buf1_len() and stmmac_rx_buf2_len() ?
>>
>> Presumably DEFAULT_BUFSIZE also want to be increased by NET_SKB_PAD
>>
>> Patch for stmmac_rx_buf1_len() :
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>> index 7b8404a21544cf29668e8a14240c3971e6bce0c3..041a74e7efca3436bfe3e17f972dd156173957a9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
>> @@ -4508,12 +4508,12 @@ static unsigned int stmmac_rx_buf1_len(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
>>  
>>         /* First descriptor, not last descriptor and not split header */
>>         if (status & rx_not_ls)
>> -               return priv->dma_buf_sz;
>> +               return priv->dma_buf_sz - NET_SKB_PAD - NET_IP_ALIGN;
>>  
>>         plen = stmmac_get_rx_frame_len(priv, p, coe);
>>  
>>         /* First descriptor and last descriptor and not split header */
>> -       return min_t(unsigned int, priv->dma_buf_sz, plen);
>> +       return min_t(unsigned int, priv->dma_buf_sz - NET_SKB_PAD - NET_IP_ALIGN, plen);
>>  }
>>  
>>  static unsigned int stmmac_rx_buf2_len(struct stmmac_priv *priv,
> 
> Feels like a major deficiency of the original patch. Happy to test a
> more complete patch if/when you have one.

I wont have time in the immediate future.

Matteo, if you do not work on a fix, I suggest we revert
 a955318fe67ec0d962760b5ee58e74bffaf649b8 stmmac: align RX buffers

before a more polished version can be submitted.