Re: [PATCH 1/1] gianfar: fix a flooded alignment reports because of padding issue.

[Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@gmail.com>]

On 12/05/2017 12:06 AM, Claudiu Manoil wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zumeng Chen [mailto:zumeng.chen@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 5:22 AM
>> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>; davem@davemloft.net
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] gianfar: fix a flooded alignment reports because of padding
>> issue.
>>
>> According to LS1021A RM, the value of PAL can be set so that the start of the
>> IP header in the receive data buffer is aligned to a 32-bit boundary. Normally,
>> setting PAL = 2 provides minimal padding to ensure such alignment of the IP
>> header.
>>
>> However every incoming packet's 8-byte time stamp will be inserted into the
>> packet data buffer as padding alignment bytes when hardware time stamping is
>> enabled.
>>
>> So we set the padding 8+2 here to avoid the flooded alignment faults:
>>
>> root@128:~# cat /proc/cpu/alignment
>> User:           0
>> System:         17539 (inet_gro_receive+0x114/0x2c0)
>> Skipped:        0
>> Half:           0
>> Word:           0
>> DWord:          0
>> Multi:          17539
>> User faults:    2 (fixup)
>>
> [...]
>> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 6 ++++--
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
>> index e616b71..e47945f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
>> @@ -1413,9 +1413,11 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
>>
>> 	gfar_init_addr_hash_table(priv);
>>
>> -	/* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes */
>> +	/* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes, and
>> +	 * plus 2 bytes padding to ensure the cpu alignment.
>> +	 */
>> 	if (priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER)
>> -		priv->padding = 8;
>> +		priv->padding = 8 + DEFAULT_PADDING;
>>
>> 	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_IP_CSUM ||
>> 	    priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER)
>> --
>> 2.5.0
> Why handle only the rx timestamp path (HAS_TIMER) when the issue,

Sorry, missed this one. Because the mis-alignment is only been
seen in gfar_clean_rx_ring from padding issue so far.

>   as presented
> by you, should be applicable to the default path as well?
>
> The code change according to the patch description should be more likely:
>
> +       priv->padding = DEFAULT_PADDING;
>          /* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes */
>          if (priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER)
> -               priv->padding = 8;
> +               priv->padding += 8;

I just did a sanity testing on your change, it's OK.

root@1021:~# cat /proc/cpu/alignment
User:        0
System:        0 (  (null))
Skipped:    0
Half:        0
Word:        0
DWord:        0
Multi:        0
User faults:    2 (fixup)

>
>
> Do you have any performance numbers for this change?
>
> Thanks,
> Claudiu