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[v2,1/2] net: ravb: Always process TX descriptor ring

Message ID 20240402145305.82148-1-paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit 596a4254915f94c927217fe09c33a6828f33fb25
Delegated to: Geert Uytterhoeven
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Series [v2,1/2] net: ravb: Always process TX descriptor ring | expand

Commit Message

Paul Barker April 2, 2024, 2:53 p.m. UTC
The TX queue should be serviced each time the poll function is called,
even if the full RX work budget has been consumed. This prevents
starvation of the TX queue when RX bandwidth usage is high.

Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
---
Changes from v1:
  * Use the correct 'Fixes' tag.
  * Call the new variable 'unmask' and drop the unnecessary initializer,
    as requested by Sergey.

 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


base-commit: ea2a1cfc3b2019bdea6324acd3c03606b60d71ad

Comments

Sergey Shtylyov April 2, 2024, 3:49 p.m. UTC | #1
On 4/2/24 5:53 PM, Paul Barker wrote:

> The TX queue should be serviced each time the poll function is called,
> even if the full RX work budget has been consumed. This prevents
> starvation of the TX queue when RX bandwidth usage is high.
> 
> Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>

[...]

MBR, Sergey
Ratheesh Kannoth April 3, 2024, 3:39 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2024-04-02 at 20:23:04, Paul Barker (paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com) wrote:
> The TX queue should be serviced each time the poll function is called,
> even if the full RX work budget has been consumed. This prevents
> starvation of the TX queue when RX bandwidth usage is high.
>
> Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
>   * Use the correct 'Fixes' tag.
>   * Call the new variable 'unmask' and drop the unnecessary initializer,
>     as requested by Sergey.
>
>  drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> index d1be030c8848..48803050abdb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> @@ -1324,12 +1324,12 @@ static int ravb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>  	int q = napi - priv->napi;
>  	int mask = BIT(q);
>  	int quota = budget;
> +	bool unmask;
>
>  	/* Processing RX Descriptor Ring */
>  	/* Clear RX interrupt */
>  	ravb_write(ndev, ~(mask | RIS0_RESERVED), RIS0);
> -	if (ravb_rx(ndev, &quota, q))
> -		goto out;
> +	unmask = !ravb_rx(ndev, &quota, q);
>
>  	/* Processing TX Descriptor Ring */
AFAIU, TX is processed without any budget. This wont result in rx work starvation if
TX traffic is more ?

>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
> @@ -1339,6 +1339,9 @@ static int ravb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>  	netif_wake_subqueue(ndev, q);
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
>
> +	if (!unmask)
> +		goto out;
> +
>  	napi_complete(napi);
>
>  	/* Re-enable RX/TX interrupts */
>
> base-commit: ea2a1cfc3b2019bdea6324acd3c03606b60d71ad
> --
> 2.39.2
>
Paul Barker April 3, 2024, 9:02 a.m. UTC | #3
On 03/04/2024 04:39, Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
> On 2024-04-02 at 20:23:04, Paul Barker (paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com) wrote:
>> The TX queue should be serviced each time the poll function is called,
>> even if the full RX work budget has been consumed. This prevents
>> starvation of the TX queue when RX bandwidth usage is high.
>>
>> Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
>> ---
>> Changes from v1:
>>   * Use the correct 'Fixes' tag.
>>   * Call the new variable 'unmask' and drop the unnecessary initializer,
>>     as requested by Sergey.
>>
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 7 +++++--
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> index d1be030c8848..48803050abdb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> @@ -1324,12 +1324,12 @@ static int ravb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>>  	int q = napi - priv->napi;
>>  	int mask = BIT(q);
>>  	int quota = budget;
>> +	bool unmask;
>>
>>  	/* Processing RX Descriptor Ring */
>>  	/* Clear RX interrupt */
>>  	ravb_write(ndev, ~(mask | RIS0_RESERVED), RIS0);
>> -	if (ravb_rx(ndev, &quota, q))
>> -		goto out;
>> +	unmask = !ravb_rx(ndev, &quota, q);
>>
>>  	/* Processing TX Descriptor Ring */
> AFAIU, TX is processed without any budget. This wont result in rx work starvation if
> TX traffic is more ?

Quoting the docs in Documentation/networking/napi.rst:

    The method takes a ``budget`` argument - drivers can process
    completions for any number of Tx packets but should only process up
    to ``budget`` number of Rx packets.

    skb Tx processing should happen regardless of the ``budget``

I take that to mean that the RX work budget running out should not stop
processing of TX packets.

Other drivers with a combined TX/RX poll function follow the same
pattern of processing TX packets regardless of RX budget exhaustion, for
example see ixgbe_poll() which processes TX packets first (in
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c).

Thanks,
Ratheesh Kannoth April 3, 2024, 9:28 a.m. UTC | #4
> From: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
> > AFAIU, TX is processed without any budget. This wont result in rx work
> > starvation if TX traffic is more ?
> 
> Quoting the docs in Documentation/networking/napi.rst:
> 
>     The method takes a ``budget`` argument - drivers can process
>     completions for any number of Tx packets but should only process up
>     to ``budget`` number of Rx packets.
> 
>     skb Tx processing should happen regardless of the ``budget``
> 
> I take that to mean that the RX work budget running out should not stop
> processing of TX packets.
> 
> Other drivers with a combined TX/RX poll function follow the same pattern of
> processing TX packets regardless of RX budget exhaustion, for example see
> ixgbe_poll() which processes TX packets first (in
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c).
ACK.  Thanks for pointing out. I had seen some drivers, TX NAPI routines exist to bring fairness to rx and tx. 
Just wondering, if there is a lot of tx traffic, would RX budget alone can do fairness among NAPI
Routines.
patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org April 4, 2024, 10:50 a.m. UTC | #5
Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>:

On Tue,  2 Apr 2024 15:53:04 +0100 you wrote:
> The TX queue should be serviced each time the poll function is called,
> even if the full RX work budget has been consumed. This prevents
> starvation of the TX queue when RX bandwidth usage is high.
> 
> Fixes: c156633f1353 ("Renesas Ethernet AVB driver proper")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v2,1/2] net: ravb: Always process TX descriptor ring
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/596a4254915f
  - [v2,2/2] net: ravb: Always update error counters
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/101b76418d71

You are awesome, thank you!
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
index d1be030c8848..48803050abdb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
@@ -1324,12 +1324,12 @@  static int ravb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 	int q = napi - priv->napi;
 	int mask = BIT(q);
 	int quota = budget;
+	bool unmask;
 
 	/* Processing RX Descriptor Ring */
 	/* Clear RX interrupt */
 	ravb_write(ndev, ~(mask | RIS0_RESERVED), RIS0);
-	if (ravb_rx(ndev, &quota, q))
-		goto out;
+	unmask = !ravb_rx(ndev, &quota, q);
 
 	/* Processing TX Descriptor Ring */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
@@ -1339,6 +1339,9 @@  static int ravb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 	netif_wake_subqueue(ndev, q);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 
+	if (!unmask)
+		goto out;
+
 	napi_complete(napi);
 
 	/* Re-enable RX/TX interrupts */