From d3265c19b35d036bba327b36b5366bee76b0157c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nazim Amirul Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 05:17:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net: stmmac: xgmac2: disable RBUE in default RX interrupt mask Enabling the RX Buffer Unavailable (RBUE) interrupt is counterproductive and can trigger a MAC interrupt storm under heavy RX pressure. When the DMA runs out of RX descriptors it fires RBUE continuously until software refills the ring. However, RBUE is redundant: the normal RX completion interrupt (RIE) already triggers NAPI, which processes completed descriptors and refills the ring, causing the DMA to resume. The RBUE handler itself only sets handle_rx - the same outcome as RIE. On Agilex5 under heavy RX pressure, the MAC interrupt (which includes RBUE) was observed firing 1,821,811,555 times against only 2,618,627 actual RX completions - a ~695x ratio - confirming the severity of the storm. RBUE does not provide OOM recovery. If page_pool is exhausted, stmmac_rx_refill() cannot advance the DMA tail pointer, the DMA stays suspended, and RBUE fires again on the next NAPI completion - a storm with no forward progress. This patch trades that storm for a clean stall with the same RX outcome. Proper OOM recovery is a pre-existing gap outside the scope of this fix. Note: as a consequence of disabling RBUE, the rx_buf_unav_irq ethtool counter will always read 0 on XGMAC2 devices. This behaviour is already inconsistent across DWMAC core versions. Remove RBUE from XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_EN and XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_RX to prevent the interrupt storm while keeping normal RX handling intact. Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier Signed-off-by: Nazim Amirul Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609121703.9736-1-muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade@altera.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2.h index 95fdf3133208..61b6d45a02f5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2.h @@ -379,9 +379,9 @@ #define XGMAC_RIE BIT(6) #define XGMAC_TBUE BIT(2) #define XGMAC_TIE BIT(0) -#define XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_EN (XGMAC_NIE | XGMAC_AIE | XGMAC_RBUE | \ +#define XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_EN (XGMAC_NIE | XGMAC_AIE | \ XGMAC_RIE | XGMAC_TIE) -#define XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_RX (XGMAC_RBUE | XGMAC_RIE) +#define XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_RX (XGMAC_RIE) #define XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_TX (XGMAC_TIE) #define XGMAC_DMA_CH_Rx_WATCHDOG(x) (0x0000313c + (0x80 * (x))) #define XGMAC_RWT GENMASK(7, 0) -- 2.47.3