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author | Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> | 2006-08-15 01:39:10 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-08-17 16:29:51 -0700 |
commit | 2f8af120a159a843948749ea88bcacda9779b132 (patch) | |
tree | e633037a72db856b8078e814e3451dd8f44c14de /drivers/net/bnx2.c | |
parent | fb33f82568d32016b3b3c00819574f9526e52be3 (diff) |
[BNX2]: Fix tx race condition.
Fix a subtle race condition between bnx2_start_xmit() and bnx2_tx_int()
similar to the one in tg3 discovered by Herbert Xu:
CPU0 CPU1
bnx2_start_xmit()
if (tx_ring_full) {
tx_lock
bnx2_tx()
if (!netif_queue_stopped)
netif_stop_queue()
if (!tx_ring_full)
update_tx_ring
netif_wake_queue()
tx_unlock
}
Even though tx_ring is updated before the if statement in bnx2_tx_int() in
program order, it can be re-ordered by the CPU as shown above. This
scenario can cause the tx queue to be stopped forever if bnx2_tx_int() has
just freed up the entire tx_ring. The possibility of this happening
should be very rare though.
The following changes are made, very much identical to the tg3 fix:
1. Add memory barrier to fix the above race condition.
2. Eliminate the private tx_lock altogether and rely solely on
netif_tx_lock. This eliminates one spinlock in bnx2_start_xmit()
when the ring is full.
3. Because of 2, use netif_tx_lock in bnx2_tx_int() before calling
netif_wake_queue().
4. Add memory barrier to bnx2_tx_avail().
5. Add bp->tx_wake_thresh which is set to half the tx ring size.
6. Check for the full wake queue condition before getting
netif_tx_lock in tg3_tx(). This reduces the number of unnecessary
spinlocks when the tx ring is full in a steady-state condition.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bnx2.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bnx2.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/bnx2.c index db73de0d2511..2099edbbfdfd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bnx2.c +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2.c @@ -209,8 +209,10 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, bnx2_pci_tbl); static inline u32 bnx2_tx_avail(struct bnx2 *bp) { - u32 diff = TX_RING_IDX(bp->tx_prod) - TX_RING_IDX(bp->tx_cons); + u32 diff; + smp_mb(); + diff = TX_RING_IDX(bp->tx_prod) - TX_RING_IDX(bp->tx_cons); if (diff > MAX_TX_DESC_CNT) diff = (diff & MAX_TX_DESC_CNT) - 1; return (bp->tx_ring_size - diff); @@ -1686,15 +1688,20 @@ bnx2_tx_int(struct bnx2 *bp) } bp->tx_cons = sw_cons; + /* Need to make the tx_cons update visible to bnx2_start_xmit() + * before checking for netif_queue_stopped(). Without the + * memory barrier, there is a small possibility that bnx2_start_xmit() + * will miss it and cause the queue to be stopped forever. + */ + smp_mb(); - if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(bp->dev))) { - spin_lock(&bp->tx_lock); + if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(bp->dev)) && + (bnx2_tx_avail(bp) > bp->tx_wake_thresh)) { + netif_tx_lock(bp->dev); if ((netif_queue_stopped(bp->dev)) && - (bnx2_tx_avail(bp) > MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) { - + (bnx2_tx_avail(bp) > bp->tx_wake_thresh)) netif_wake_queue(bp->dev); - } - spin_unlock(&bp->tx_lock); + netif_tx_unlock(bp->dev); } } @@ -3503,6 +3510,8 @@ bnx2_init_tx_ring(struct bnx2 *bp) struct tx_bd *txbd; u32 val; + bp->tx_wake_thresh = bp->tx_ring_size / 2; + txbd = &bp->tx_desc_ring[MAX_TX_DESC_CNT]; txbd->tx_bd_haddr_hi = (u64) bp->tx_desc_mapping >> 32; @@ -4390,10 +4399,8 @@ bnx2_vlan_rx_kill_vid(struct net_device *dev, uint16_t vid) #endif /* Called with netif_tx_lock. - * hard_start_xmit is pseudo-lockless - a lock is only required when - * the tx queue is full. This way, we get the benefit of lockless - * operations most of the time without the complexities to handle - * netif_stop_queue/wake_queue race conditions. + * bnx2_tx_int() runs without netif_tx_lock unless it needs to call + * netif_wake_queue(). */ static int bnx2_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) @@ -4512,12 +4519,9 @@ bnx2_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) dev->trans_start = jiffies; if (unlikely(bnx2_tx_avail(bp) <= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) { - spin_lock(&bp->tx_lock); netif_stop_queue(dev); - - if (bnx2_tx_avail(bp) > MAX_SKB_FRAGS) + if (bnx2_tx_avail(bp) > bp->tx_wake_thresh) netif_wake_queue(dev); - spin_unlock(&bp->tx_lock); } return NETDEV_TX_OK; @@ -5628,7 +5632,6 @@ bnx2_init_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct net_device *dev) bp->pdev = pdev; spin_lock_init(&bp->phy_lock); - spin_lock_init(&bp->tx_lock); INIT_WORK(&bp->reset_task, bnx2_reset_task, bp); dev->base_addr = dev->mem_start = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0); |