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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k•org>,
	"Berck E. Nash" <flyboy@gmail•com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk•pl>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:07:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100111220753.GC3139@del.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100111084504.7adb5a1e@nehalam>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:45:04AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:03:41 +0900
> Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k•org> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps only sky2_tx_done should wake the queue?
> > Does the patch below fix the problem too?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> The idea is good,

I don't agree: you both try to make this check more specific.
Actually, since this problem is quite tricky, I wondered about
making it more genaral and visible for other maintainers by
adding something like netif_wake_queue_present() with the
check and some comment.

Jarek P.

> but what if transmit queue was full (stopped),
> and TX FIFO gets stuck.  Then Transmit timeout happens and
> the reset logic clears the queue.  What will start the queue?
> 
> Something like this:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c	2010-01-11 08:36:42.617426300 -0800
> +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c	2010-01-11 08:42:51.295237661 -0800
> @@ -1843,9 +1843,6 @@ static void sky2_tx_complete(struct sky2
>  
>  	sky2->tx_cons = idx;
>  	smp_mb();
> -
> -	if (tx_avail(sky2) > MAX_SKB_TX_LE + 4)
> -		netif_wake_queue(dev);
>  }
>  
>  static void sky2_tx_reset(struct sky2_hw *hw, unsigned port)
> @@ -2416,8 +2413,12 @@ static inline void sky2_tx_done(struct n
>  {
>  	struct sky2_port *sky2 = netdev_priv(dev);
>  
> -	if (netif_running(dev))
> +	if (netif_running(dev) && netif_device_present(dev)) {
>  		sky2_tx_complete(sky2, last);
> +
> +		if (tx_avail(sky2) > MAX_SKB_TX_LE + 4)
> +			netif_wake_queue(dev);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static inline void sky2_skb_rx(const struct sky2_port *sky2,
> @@ -3197,6 +3198,7 @@ static int sky2_reattach(struct net_devi
>  		} else {
>  			netif_device_attach(dev);
>  			sky2_set_multicast(dev);
> +			netif_start_queue(dev);
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> 
> -- 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-10 22:27 2.6.33-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-10 22:32 ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11  0:36   ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-11 13:26     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 19:32       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11 20:31         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 20:50           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11 21:02           ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-11 21:47             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 14:03     ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-11 16:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-11 22:07         ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-01-12  0:14           ` David Miller
2010-01-12  7:50             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  8:08               ` David Miller
2010-01-12  8:56                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  9:42                   ` David Miller
2010-01-12 10:31                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 10:56                     ` David Miller
2010-01-12 11:04                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 15:39                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 16:15                       ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 16:32                         ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 17:02                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 18:04                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 18:13                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 18:24                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 18:49                               ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v2) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:16                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 19:23                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:50                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13  1:23                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:34                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 18:35                         ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 18:42                           ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 20:31                             ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13  4:10                               ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v3) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-13  4:31                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13  7:35                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13 16:04                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14  3:41                                   ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 10:14                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 11:16                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 11:20                                         ` David Miller
2010-01-14 11:26                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 13:19                                             ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-14 15:43                                               ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 16:46                                               ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 17:51                                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 17:52                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 23:51                                         ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-16 18:35                                           ` sky2 DHCPOFFER packet loss under load (Was Re: [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4)) Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 15:46                                     ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4) Michael Breuer
2010-01-11 22:31         ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 16:00 ` 2.6.33-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-01-11 21:47 ` Nick Bowler
2010-01-11 22:10   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found] ` <omZ8aBZReyD.A.rz.COlSLB@chimera>
2010-01-28 23:18   ` [PATCH net-2.6] cdc_ether: Partially revert "usbnet: Set link down initially ..." Ben Hutchings
2010-01-29  5:37     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-29 15:05 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-29 15:10 ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Rafael J. Wysocki

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