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net/mlx4_en: update moderation when config reset

Message ID 20210303144354.4176857-1-yyd@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series net/mlx4_en: update moderation when config reset | expand

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Commit Message

Kevin Yang March 3, 2021, 2:43 p.m. UTC
This patch fixes a bug that the moderation config will not be
applied when calling mlx4_en_reset_config. For example, when
turning on rx timestamping, mlx4_en_reset_config() will be called,
causing the NIC to forget previous moderation config.

This fix is in phase with a previous fix:
commit 79c54b6bbf06 ("net/mlx4_en: Fix TX moderation info loss
after set_ringparam is called")

Tested: Before this patch, on a host with NIC using mlx4, run
netserver and stream TCP to the host at full utilization.
$ sar -I SUM 1
                 INTR    intr/s
14:03:56          sum  48758.00

After rx hwtstamp is enabled:
$ sar -I SUM 1
14:10:38          sum 317771.00
We see the moderation is not working properly and issued 7x more
interrupts.

After the patch, and turned on rx hwtstamp, the rate of interrupts
is as expected:
$ sar -I SUM 1
14:52:11          sum  49332.00

Fixes: 79c54b6bbf06 ("net/mlx4_en: Fix TX moderation info loss after set_ringparam is called")
Signed-off-by: Kevin(Yudong) Yang <yyd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
CC: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c  | 2 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h    | 1 +
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c
index 23849f2b9c25..1434df66fcf2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ 
 #define EN_ETHTOOL_SHORT_MASK cpu_to_be16(0xffff)
 #define EN_ETHTOOL_WORD_MASK  cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff)
 
-static int mlx4_en_moderation_update(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
+int mlx4_en_moderation_update(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
 {
 	int i, t;
 	int err = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index 51b9700fce83..5d0c9c62382d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -3554,6 +3554,8 @@  int mlx4_en_reset_config(struct net_device *dev,
 			en_err(priv, "Failed starting port\n");
 	}
 
+	if (!err)
+		err = mlx4_en_moderation_update(priv);
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&mdev->state_lock);
 	kfree(tmp);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index e8ed23190de0..f3d1a20201ef 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -775,6 +775,7 @@  void mlx4_en_ptp_overflow_check(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev);
 #define DEV_FEATURE_CHANGED(dev, new_features, feature) \
 	((dev->features & feature) ^ (new_features & feature))
 
+int mlx4_en_moderation_update(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv);
 int mlx4_en_reset_config(struct net_device *dev,
 			 struct hwtstamp_config ts_config,
 			 netdev_features_t new_features);