Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Most notable changes in here:
1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of
contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit. This is
the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of
several individuals.
Now, when the ->ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees
skb->xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell
telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires.
skb->xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to
call the driver immediately with another SKB to send.
There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple
packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in
software is now done with no locks held.
Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can
be used to test a multi-send implementation.
Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4,
virtio_net
Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to
support this optimization soon.
I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper
Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal
Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann,
David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell.
2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon.
3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via
ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver. From
Govindarajulu Varadarajan.
4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx
driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from
Florian Fainelli.
5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers
to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA
into pools of pages. The objective is to get exactly the
necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled,
but no more. The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen().
From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own
by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric
Dumazet.
6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for
encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility. From Tom
Herbert.
7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian
Fainelli.
8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive
testsuite. Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann.
9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major
areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators. From John
Fastabend.
10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander
Duyck.
11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric
Dumazet.
12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From
Florian Westphal.
13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly
faster. From Eric Dumazet"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits)
netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init()
net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers
net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning
cxgb4: clean up a type issue
cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug
i40e: skb->xmit_more support
net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX
net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX
r8169:add support for RTL8168EP
net_sched: copy exts->type in tcf_exts_change()
wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()
af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static
ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type.
Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list
bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING
tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling
net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support
net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY
3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single())
net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming
...
Add two helpers so that drivers do not have to care of BQL being
available or not.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Fixes: 29d40c9032 ("net/mlx4_en: Use prefetch in tx path")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The tx_desc struct holds 8 __be64 values. The original code in
ring_tx_db() took a tx_desc pointer then casted it to an int pointer and
then casted it to a u64 pointer. It was confusing and triggered some
static checker warnings.
I have changed the cxgb_pio_copy() function to only take tx_desc
pointers. This isn't really a loss of flexibility because anything else
was buggy to begin with.
I also removed the casting on the destination pointer since that was
unnecessary and a bit messy.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
"cntxt_id" is an unsigned int but "udb" is a u64 so there is a potential
shift wrapping bug here.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Support skb->xmit_more in i40e is straightforward : we need to move
around i40e_maybe_stop_tx() call to correctly test netif_xmit_stopped()
before taking the decision to not kick the NIC.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When using a MPC8xx as a router, 'perf' shows a significant time spent in
fs_enet_interrupt() and fs_enet_start_xmit().
'perf annotate' shows that the time spent in fs_enet_start_xmit is indeed spent
between spin_unlock_irqrestore() and the following instruction, hence in
interrupt handling. This is due to the TX complete interrupt that fires after
each transmitted packet.
This patch modifies the handling of TX complete to use NAPI.
With this patch, my NAT router offers a throughput improved by 21%
Original performance:
[root@localhost tmp]# scp toto pgs:/tmp
toto 100% 256MB 2.8MB/s 01:31
Performance with the patch:
[root@localhost tmp]# scp toto pgs:/tmp
toto 100% 256MB 3.4MB/s 01:16
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the probe function, use_napi is inconditionnaly set to 1. This patch removes
all the code which is conditional to !use_napi, and removes use_napi which has
then become useless.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
RTL8168EP is Realtek PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller with DASH support.
It is a successor chip of RTL8168DP.
For RTL8168EP, the read/write ocp register is via eri channel type 2, so I
move ocp_xxx() related functions under rtl_eri_xxx. And use r8168dp_ocp_xxx()
for RTL8168DP ocp read/write, r8168ep_ocp_xxx() for RTL8168EP ocp read/write.
The way of checking dash enable is different with RTL8168DP. I use
r8168dp_check_dash()for RTL8168DP and r8168ep_check_dash() for RTL8168EP,
to check if dash is enabled.
The driver_start() and driver_stop() of RTL8168EP is also different with
RTL8168DP. I use rtl8168dp_driver_xxx() for RTL8168DP and
rtl8168ep_driver_xxx for RTL8168EP.
Right now, RTL8168EP phy mcu did not need firmware code patch, so I did not
add firmware code for it.
so I did not add firmware code for it.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Hao Lin <hau@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Drivers should avoid NETDEV_TX_BUSY as much as possible.
They should stop the tx queue before qdisc even tries to push another
packet, to avoid requeues.
For a driver supporting skb->xmit_more, this is likely to be a prereq
anyway, otherwise we could have a tx deadlock : We need to force a
doorbell if TX ring is full.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In commit 6f2b6a3005,
# 3c59x: Add dma error checking and recovery
the intent is to split out the mapping from the byte-swapping in order to
insert a dma_mapping_error() check.
Kinda this semantic patch:
// See http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
//
// Beware, grouik-and-dirty!
@@
expression DEV, X, Y, Z;
@@
- cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single(DEV, X, Y, Z))
+ dma_addr_t addr = pci_map_single(DEV, X, Y, Z);
+ if (dma_mapping_error(&DEV->dev, addr))
+ /* snip */;
+ cpu_to_le32(addr)
However, the #else part (of the #if DO_ZEROCOPY test) is changed this way:
- cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single(DEV, X, Y, Z))
+ dma_addr_t addr = cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single(DEV, X, Y, Z));
// ^^^^^^^^^^^
// That mismatches the 3 other changes!
+ if (dma_mapping_error(&DEV->dev, addr))
+ /* snip */;
+ cpu_to_le32(addr)
Let's remove the leftover cpu_to_le32() for coherency.
v2: Better changelog.
v3: Add Acked-by
Fixes: 6f2b6a3005
# 3c59x: Add dma error checking and recovery
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Sylvain "ythier" Hitier <sylvain.hitier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
GENET MAC has three Tx ring priority registers:
- GENET_x_TDMA_PRIORITY0 for queues 0-5
- GENET_x_TDMA_PRIORITY1 for queues 6-11
- GENET_x_TDMA_PRIORITY2 for queues 12-16
Fix bcmgenet_init_multiq() to program them correctly.
Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When Tx VLAN offloading is disabled frames with size ~ MTU are not
transmitted as the driver does not account 4 bytes of VLAN header added
by stack. It should use VLAN_ETH_HLEN instead of ETH_HLEN.
The second problem is with newer BNA chips (BNA 1860). These chips filter
out any VLAN tagged frames in Tx path. This is a problem when Tx VLAN
offloading is disabled and frames are tagged by stack. Older chips like
1010/1020 are not affected as they probably don't do such filtering.
Cc: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of setting inline threshold using module parameter only on
driver load, use set_tunable() to set it dynamically.
No need to store the threshold per ring, using instead the netdev global
priv->prof->inline_thold
Initial value still is set using the module parameter, therefore
backward compatability is kept.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reorganize code to call is_inline() once, so compiler can inline it
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Properly clear tx_info->ts_requested
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Access skb_headlen() once in tx flow
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acces skb_shinfo(skb) once in tx flow.
Also, rename @i variable to @i_frag to avoid confusion, as the "goto
tx_drop_unmap;" relied on this @i variable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mlx4_en_process_tx_cq() carefully fetches and writes ring->last_nr_txbb
and ring->cons only one time to avoid false sharing
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mlx4_en_free_tx_desc() uses a prefetchw(&skb->users) to speed up
consume_skb()
prefetchw(&ring->tx_queue->dql) to speed up BQL update
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add frag0_dma/frag0_byte_count into mlx4_en_tx_info to avoid a cache
line miss in TX completion for frames having one dma element. (We avoid
reading back the tx descriptor)
Note this could be extended to 2/3 dma elements later, as we have free
room in mlx4_en_tx_info
Also, mlx4_en_free_tx_desc() no longer accesses skb_shinfo(). We use a
new nr_maps fields in mlx4_en_tx_info to avoid 2 or 3 cache misses.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Try to allocate using kmalloc_node() first, only on failure use
vmalloc()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- doorbell_qpn is stored in the cpu_to_be32() way to avoid bswap() in fast
path.
- mdev->mr.key stored in ring->mr_key to also avoid bswap() and access to
cold cache line.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reorganize struct mlx4_en_tx_ring to have:
- One cache line containing last_nr_txbb & cons & wake_queue, used by tx
completion.
- One cache line containing fields dirtied by mlx4_en_xmit()
- Following part is read mostly and shared by cpus.
Align struct mlx4_en_tx_info to a cache line
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Remove unused variable ring->poll_cnt
- No need to set some fields if using blueflame
- Add missing const's
- Use unlikely
- Remove unneeded new line
- Make some comments more precise
- struct mlx4_bf @offset field reduced to unsigned int to save space
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When fec_enet_alloc_buffers() fails we should better undo the previous actions,
which consists of: disabling the FEC clocks and putting the FEC pins into
inactive state.
The error path for fec_enet_mii_probe() is kept unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
reproduce:
wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
git checkout 1b7bde6d65
make.cross ARCH=m68k m5275evb_defconfig
make.cross ARCH=m68k
All error/warnings:
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c: In function 'fec_enet_rx_queue':
>> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c:1470:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'prefetch' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
prefetch(skb->data - NET_IP_ALIGN);
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
missed included prefetch.h
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bcmgenet_mii_setup() is called from the PHY state machine every 1-2 seconds
when the PHYs are in PHY_POLL mode.
Improve bcmgenet_mii_setup() so that it touches the MAC registers only when
the link is up and there was a change to link, speed, duplex, or pause status.
Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch avoids PHY and MDIO probing if no PHY chip is present.
This is the case mainly in optical links where there is no need for
PHY chip, and therefore no need of MDIO. In this scenario Ethernet
MAC is directly connected to an optical module through an external
SFP transceiver.
Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano <walter@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move PHY get addr and MDIO create to a new function to improve readability
and make it easier to avoid its usage. This will be useful for example in
the case where there is no PHY chip.
Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano <walter@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signedness bugs may occur when using signed char for bitops,
depending on if the highest bit is ever used.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signedness bugs may occur when using signed char for bitops,
depending on if the highest bit is ever used.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes the spider_net_get_mac_address() call at the end of
the spider_net_set_mac() function. The dev->dev_addr is instead updated
with a memcpy() from sa->sa_data.
Since spider_net_get_mac_address() is not used anywhere else, this patch
also removes the function.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Similar to commit bc23333ba1 ("net:
bcmgenet: fix bcmgenet_put_tx_csum()"), we need to return the skb
pointer in case we had to reallocate the SKB headroom.
Fixes: 80105befdb ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ethtool -S reports a new counter, tracking number of time doorbell
was not triggered, because skb->xmit_more was set.
$ ethtool -S eth0 | egrep "tx_packet|xmit_more"
tx_packets: 2413288400
xmit_more: 666121277
I merged the tso_packet false sharing avoidance in this patch as well.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
PXA168_ETH need HAS_IOMEM, so depend on it, the related error (with
allmodconfig under um):
CC [M] drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.o
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c: In function ‘pxa168_eth_probe’:
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c:1605:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘iounmap’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
iounmap(pep->base);
^
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2014-10-02
This series contains updates to fm10k, igb, ixgbe and i40e.
Alex provides two updates to the fm10k driver. First reduces the buffer
size to 2k for all page sizes, since most frames only have a 1500 MTU
so supporting a buffer size larger than this is somewhat wasteful.
Second fixes an issue where the number of transmit queues was not being
updated, so added the lines necessary to update the number of transmit
queues.
Rick Jones provides two patches to convert ixgbe, igb and i40e to use
dev_consume_skb_any().
Emil provides two patches for ixgbe, first cleans up a couple of wait
loops on auto-negotiation that were not needed. Second fixes an issue
reported by Fujitsu/Red Hat, which consolidates the logic behind the
dynamically setting of TXDCTL.WTHRESH depending on interrupt throttle
rate (ITR) setting regardless of BQL.
Ethan Zhao provides a cleanup patch for ixgbe where he noticed a
duplicate define.
Bernhard Kaindl provides a patch for igb to remove a source of latency
spikes by not calling code that uses mdelay() for feeding a PHY stat
while being called with a spinlock held.
Todd bumps the igb version based on the recent changes.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add the upcoming ConnectX-4 device to the list of supported devices by then
mlx5 driver.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch puts a common part as the first field of mlx5_core_qp. This field is
used to identify which resource generated an event. This is required since upcoming
new resource types such as DC targets are allocated for the same numerical space
as regular QPs and may generate the same events. By searching the resource in the
same table we can then look at the common field to identify the resource.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Transform device capabilities related commands to use set/get macros to
manipulate command mailboxes.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add an auto generated header file that describes hardware registers along with
set of macros that set/get values. The macros do static checks to avoid
overflow, handle endianess, and overall provide a clean way to code commands.
Currently the header file is small and we will add structs as we make use of
the macros.
A few commands were removed from the commands enum since they are not supported
currently and will be added when support is available.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rearrange struct mlx5_caps so it has a "gen" field to represent the current
capabilities configured for the device. Max capabilities can also be queried
from the device. Also update capabilities struct to contain more fields as per
the latest revision if firmware specification.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no need to call ether_setup after alloc_ethdev since it was
already called there.
Follow commits c706471b26 ("net: axienet: remove unnecessary
ether_setup after alloc_etherdev") and 3c87dcbfb3 ("net: ll_temac:
Remove unnecessary ether_setup after alloc_etherdev") and fix the
pattern in all remaining ethernet drivers.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds the ethernet driver for Agere et131x devices to
drivers/net/ethernet.
The driver being added has been in the staging tree for some time, and will be
removed from there in a seperate patch. This one merely disables the staging
version to prevent two instances being built.
Signed-off-by: Mark Einon <mark.einon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
Both r8152 and nfnetlink conflicts were simple overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bump version
Signed-off-by: Todd Fujinaka <todd.fujinaka@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Convert two more Intel NIC drivers to dev_consume_skb_any() to help
make dropped packet profiling sane.
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jim Young <jamesx.m.young@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Remove a source of latency spikes (in my case up to 10ms) by not calling
code that uses mdelay() for feeding a phy statistic (rx errors for idle
symbols - not data -> idle_errors) while being called with a spinlock held.
As idle_errors isn't read, this patch only removes unused code and data.
Later, more complicated changes may be applied to address the spinlock and
allow for some PHY diagnostics by harvesting this PHY stats register fully.
This patch is designed to fix the issue and be safe for longterm/stable.
For the Intel e1000e driver, the same change was applied in 2008 with
commit 23033fad5b ("e1000e: remove phy read from inside spinlock").
The mdelay is triggered by HW/SW semaphores, thus it depends on the HW.
I've HW that triggers it even when idle. Others may trigger it only e.g.
when Ethernet ports aquire or loose the link or on ifconfig up / down.
We've noticed this first from delays in frame rx/tx due to the mdelay().
Example command for checking if the issue is triggered: cyclictest -Smp1
(Look for occasional "Max:" values > 4000 or use -b 4000 to stop if greater)
It was observed with I350 ports connected to other I350 ports, but not
if driver and EEPROM was modified to run the I350 in EEPROM-less mode.
phy_stats.idle_errors and .receive_errors (isn't touched) occupy 64 not
used bits in the adapter struct: Their allocation may be removed as well.
Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>
Cc: Todd Fujinaka <todd.fujinaka@intel.com>
Fixes: 12dcd86b75 ("igb: fix stats handling") (this added the spin_lock)
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <bk-linux@use.startmail.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
