The E825 hardware currently has each PF handle the PFINT_TSYN_TX cause of
the miscellaneous OICR interrupt vector. The actual interrupt cause
underlying this is shared by all ports on the same quad:
If multiple PFs issue Tx timestamp requests near simultaneously, it is
possible that the correct PF will not be interrupted and will miss its
timestamp. Understanding why is somewhat complex.
Consider the following sequence of events:
CPU 0:
Send Tx packet on PF 0
...
PF 0 enqueues packet with Tx request CPU 1, PF1:
... Send Tx packet on PF1
... PF 1 enqueues packet with Tx request
HW:
PHY Port 0 sends packet
PHY raises Tx timestamp event interrupt
MAC raises each PF interrupt
CPU 0, PF0: CPU 1, PF1:
ice_misc_intr() checks for Tx timestamps ice_misc_intr() checks for Tx timestamp
Sees packet ready bit set Sees nothing available
... Exits
...
...
HW:
PHY port 1 sends packet
PHY interrupt ignored because not all packet timestamps read yet.
...
Read timestamp, report to stack
Because the interrupt event is shared for all ports on the same quad, the
PHY will not raise a new interrupt for any PF until all timestamps are
read.
In the example above, the second timestamp comes in for port 1 before the
timestamp from port 0 is read. At this point, there is no longer an
interrupt thread running that will read the timestamps, because each PF has
checked and found that there was no work to do. Applications such as ptp4l
will timeout after waiting a few milliseconds. Eventually, the watchdog
service task will re-check for all quads and notice that there are
outstanding timestamps, and issue a software interrupt to recover. However,
by this point it is far too late, and applications have already failed.
All of this occurs because of the underlying hardware behavior. The PHY
cannot raise a new interrupt signal until all outstanding timestamps have
been read.
As a first step to fix this, switch the E825C hardware to the
ICE_PTP_TX_INTERRUPT_ALL mode. In this mode, only the clock owner PF will
respond to the PFINT_TSYN_TX cause. Other PFs disable this cause and will
not wake. In this mode, the clock owner will iterate over all ports and
handle timestamps for each connected port.
This matches the E822 behavior, and is a necessary but insufficient step to
resolve the missing timestamps.
Even with use of the ICE_PTP_TX_INTERRUPT_ALL mode, we still sometimes miss
a timestamp event. The ice_ptp_tx_tstamp_owner() does re-check the ready
bitmap, but does so before re-enabling the OICR interrupt vector. It also
only checks the ready bitmap, but not the software Tx timestamp tracker.
To avoid risk of losing a timestamp, refactor the logic to check both the
software Tx timestamp tracker bitmap *and* the hardware ready bitmap.
Additionally, do this outside of ice_ptp_process_ts() after we have already
re-enabled the OICR interrupt.
Remove the checks from the ice_ptp_tx_tstamp(), ice_ptp_tx_tstamp_owner(),
and the ice_ptp_process_ts() functions. This results in ice_ptp_tx_tstamp()
being nothing more than a wrapper around ice_ptp_process_tx_tstamp() so we
can remove it.
Add the ice_ptp_tx_tstamps_pending() function which returns a boolean
indicating if there are any pending Tx timestamps. First, check the
software timestamp tracker bitmap. In ICE_PTP_TX_INTERRUPT_ALL mode, check
*all* ports software trackers. If a tracker has outstanding timestamp
requests, return true. Additionally, check the PHY ready bitmap to confirm
if the PHY indicates any outstanding timestamps.
In the ice_misc_thread_fn(), call ice_ptp_tx_tstamps_pending() just before
returning from the IRQ thread handler. If it returns true, write to
PFINT_OICR to trigger a PFINT_OICR_TSYN_TX_M software interrupt. This will
force the handler to interrupt again and complete the work even if the PHY
hardware did not interrupt for any reason.
This results in the following new flow for handling Tx timestamps:
1) send Tx packet
2) PHY captures timestamp
3) PHY triggers MAC interrupt
4) clock owner executes ice_misc_intr() with PFINT_OICR_TSYN_TX flag set
5) ice_ptp_ts_irq() returns IRQ_WAKE_THREAD
7) The interrupt thread wakes up and kernel calls ice_misc_intr_thread_fn()
8) ice_ptp_process_ts() is called to handle any outstanding timestamps
9) ice_irq_dynamic_ena() is called to re-enable the OICR hardware interrupt
cause
10) ice_ptp_tx_tstamps_pending() is called to check if we missed any more
outstanding timestamps, checking both software and hardware indicators.
With this change, it should no longer be possible for new timestamps to
come in such a way that we lose an interrupt. If a timestamp comes in
before the ice_ptp_tx_tstamps_pending() call, it will be noticed by at
least one of the software bitmap check or the hardware bitmap check. If the
timestamp comes in *after* this check, it should cause a timestamp
interrupt as we have already read all timestamps from the PHY and the OICR
vector has been re-enabled.
Fixes: 7cab44f1c35f ("ice: Introduce ETH56G PHY model for E825C products") Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Przemyslaw Korba <przemyslaw.korba@intel.com> Tested-by: Vitaly Grinberg <vgrinber@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sunitha Mekala <sunithax.d.mekala@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>