From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755311AbdBOX1u (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:27:50 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:53977 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753261AbdBOX1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:27:47 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Erez Shitrit" , "Tariq Toukan" , "David S. Miller" , "Eugenia Emantayev" Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:40 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 186/306] net/mlx4_en: Process all completions in RX rings after port goes up In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Erez Shitrit commit 8d59de8f7bb3db296331c665779c653b0c8d13ba upstream. Currently there is a race between incoming traffic and initialization flow. HW is able to receive the packets after INIT_PORT is done and unicast steering is configured. Before we set priv->port_up NAPI is not scheduled and receive queues become full. Therefore we never get new interrupts about the completions. This issue could happen if running heavy traffic during bringing port up. The resolution is to schedule NAPI once port_up is set. If receive queues were full this will process all cqes and release them. Fixes: c27a02cd94d6 ("mlx4_en: Add driver for Mellanox ConnectX 10GbE NIC") Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -1733,6 +1733,13 @@ int mlx4_en_start_port(struct net_device vxlan_get_rx_port(dev); #endif priv->port_up = true; + + /* Process all completions if exist to prevent + * the queues freezing if they are full + */ + for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) + napi_schedule(&priv->rx_cq[i]->napi); + netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev); netif_device_attach(dev);