]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/stable.git/commit
idpf: fix a race in txq wakeup
authorBrian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>
Thu, 1 May 2025 17:06:17 +0000 (17:06 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:32:16 +0000 (15:32 +0200)
commit12e40d01d6d1aa9224200d6b9d9570d6aa68ef74
tree141f851d080b3536293ec438f691f93777651371
parent635fd9cead3d4f218ebfdccc5e174b62a2182901
idpf: fix a race in txq wakeup

[ Upstream commit 7292af042bcf22e2c18b96ed250f78498a5b28ab ]

Add a helper function to correctly handle the lockless
synchronization when the sender needs to block. The paradigm is

        if (no_resources()) {
                stop_queue();
                barrier();
                if (!no_resources())
                        restart_queue();
        }

netif_subqueue_maybe_stop already handles the paradigm correctly, but
the code split the check for resources in three parts, the first one
(descriptors) followed the protocol, but the other two (completions and
tx_buf) were only doing the first part and so race prone.

Luckily netif_subqueue_maybe_stop macro already allows you to use a
function to evaluate the start/stop conditions so the fix only requires
the right helper function to evaluate all the conditions at once.

The patch removes idpf_tx_maybe_stop_common since it's no longer needed
and instead adjusts separately the conditions for singleq and splitq.

Note that idpf_tx_buf_hw_update doesn't need to check for resources
since that will be covered in idpf_tx_splitq_frame.

To reproduce:

Reduce the threshold for pending completions to increase the chances of
hitting this pause by changing your kernel:

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h

-#define IDPF_TX_COMPLQ_OVERFLOW_THRESH(txcq)   ((txcq)->desc_count >> 1)
+#define IDPF_TX_COMPLQ_OVERFLOW_THRESH(txcq)   ((txcq)->desc_count >> 4)

Use pktgen to force the host to push small pkts very aggressively:

./pktgen_sample02_multiqueue.sh -i eth1 -s 100 -6 -d $IP -m $MAC \
  -p 10000-10000 -t 16 -n 0 -v -x -c 64

Fixes: 6818c4d5b3c2 ("idpf: add splitq start_xmit")
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Madhu Chittim <madhu.chittim@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Samuel Salin <Samuel.salin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h