From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: David Thompson <davthompson@nvidia•com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft•net>, <edumazet@google•com>, <pabeni@redhat•com>,
<netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <cai.huoqing@linux•dev>,
<brgl@bgdev•pl>, <limings@nvidia•com>,
Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@nvidia•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1] mlxbf_gige: fix receive packet race condition
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:17:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220919141736.53155bb2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220908202853.21725-1-davthompson@nvidia.com>
On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 16:28:53 -0400 David Thompson wrote:
> Under heavy traffic, the BF2 Gigabit interface can
> become unresponsive for periods of time (several minutes)
> before eventually recovering. This is due to a possible
> race condition in the mlxbf_gige_rx_packet function, where
> the function exits with producer and consumer indices equal
> but there are remaining packet(s) to be processed. In order
> to prevent this situation, disable receive DMA during the
> processing of received packets.
Pausing Rx DMA seems a little drastic, is the capacity of the NIC
buffer large enough to sink the traffic while the stack drains
the ring?
Could you provide a little more detail on what the HW issue is?
There is no less intrusive way we can fix it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-19 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-08 20:28 [PATCH net v1] mlxbf_gige: fix receive packet race condition David Thompson
2022-09-19 21:17 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-10-25 16:31 ` David Thompson
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