* [PATCH net-next] net: systemport: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations
@ 2020-04-23 23:13 Doug Berger
2020-04-24 1:47 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-04-24 23:50 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Doug Berger @ 2020-04-23 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Florian Fainelli, David S. Miller
Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list, netdev, linux-kernel, Doug Berger
The driver is designed to drop Rx packets and reclaim the buffers
when an allocation fails, and the network interface needs to safely
handle this packet loss. Therefore, an allocation failure of Rx
SKBs is relatively benign.
However, the output of the warning message occurs with a high
scheduling priority that can cause excessive jitter/latency for
other high priority processing.
This commit suppresses the warning messages to prevent scheduling
problems while retaining the failure count in the statistics of
the network interface.
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
index af7ce5c5488c..ed12a0f894bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c
@@ -664,7 +664,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *bcm_sysport_rx_refill(struct bcm_sysport_priv *priv,
dma_addr_t mapping;
/* Allocate a new SKB for a new packet */
- skb = netdev_alloc_skb(priv->netdev, RX_BUF_LENGTH);
+ skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(priv->netdev, RX_BUF_LENGTH,
+ GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!skb) {
priv->mib.alloc_rx_buff_failed++;
netif_err(priv, rx_err, ndev, "SKB alloc failed\n");
--
2.7.4
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* Re: [PATCH net-next] net: systemport: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations
2020-04-23 23:13 [PATCH net-next] net: systemport: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations Doug Berger
@ 2020-04-24 1:47 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-04-24 23:50 ` David Miller
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Florian Fainelli @ 2020-04-24 1:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Doug Berger, Florian Fainelli, David S. Miller
Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list, netdev, linux-kernel
On 4/23/2020 4:13 PM, Doug Berger wrote:
> The driver is designed to drop Rx packets and reclaim the buffers
> when an allocation fails, and the network interface needs to safely
> handle this packet loss. Therefore, an allocation failure of Rx
> SKBs is relatively benign.
>
> However, the output of the warning message occurs with a high
> scheduling priority that can cause excessive jitter/latency for
> other high priority processing.
>
> This commit suppresses the warning messages to prevent scheduling
> problems while retaining the failure count in the statistics of
> the network interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
--
Florian
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* Re: [PATCH net-next] net: systemport: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations
2020-04-23 23:13 [PATCH net-next] net: systemport: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations Doug Berger
2020-04-24 1:47 ` Florian Fainelli
@ 2020-04-24 23:50 ` David Miller
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2020-04-24 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: opendmb; +Cc: f.fainelli, bcm-kernel-feedback-list, netdev, linux-kernel
From: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:13:30 -0700
> The driver is designed to drop Rx packets and reclaim the buffers
> when an allocation fails, and the network interface needs to safely
> handle this packet loss. Therefore, an allocation failure of Rx
> SKBs is relatively benign.
>
> However, the output of the warning message occurs with a high
> scheduling priority that can cause excessive jitter/latency for
> other high priority processing.
>
> This commit suppresses the warning messages to prevent scheduling
> problems while retaining the failure count in the statistics of
> the network interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Applied.
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