[net v2] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: handle dma buffer size soc specific

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed May 29 21:21:54 PDT 2024



On 5/29/2024 6:46 PM, Bc-bocun Chen (陳柏村) wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-05-29 at 17:50 +0000, Sunil Kovvuri Goutham wrote:
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>>   On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 17:13 +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 03:55:55PM GMT, Sunil Kovvuri Goutham
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Frank Wunderlich <linux at fw-web.de>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2024 7:52 PM
>>>>>>>> To: Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name>; Sean Wang <
>>>>>>>> sean.wang at mediatek.com>;
>>>>>>>> Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee at mediatek.com>; Lorenzo Bianconi
>>>>>>>> <lorenzo at kernel.org>; David S. Miller <
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>>>>>>>> Dumazet
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>>>>>>>> Cc: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w at public-files.de>; John
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>>>>>>>> Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>
>>>>>>>> Subject: [net v2] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: handle dma
>>>>> buffer
>>>>>>>> size soc specific
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w at public-files.de>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The mainline MTK ethernet driver suffers long time from
>>>>> rarly but
>>>>>>>> annoying tx
>>>>>>>> queue timeouts. We think that this is caused by fixed dma
>>>>> sizes
>>>>>>>> hardcoded for
>>>>>>>> all SoCs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Use the dma-size implementation from SDK in a per SoC
>>>>> manner.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fixes: 656e705243fd ("net-next: mediatek: add support for
>>>>> MT7623
>>>>>>>> ethernet")
>>>>>>>> Suggested-by: Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w at public-files.de>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ..............
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
>>>>>>>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
>>>>>>>> index cae46290a7ae..f1ff1be73926 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .............
>>>>>>>> @@ -1142,40 +1142,46 @@ static int mtk_init_fq_dma(struct
>>>>> mtk_eth
>>>>>>>> *eth)
>>>>>>>>                              cnt * soc-
>>>>>>>>> tx.desc_size,
>>>>>>>>                              &eth-
>>>>>>>>> phy_scratch_ring,
>>>>>>>>                              GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ..............
>>>>>>>> -  for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
>>>>>>>> -      dma_addr_t addr = dma_addr + i *
>> MTK_QDMA_PAGE_SIZE;
>>>>>>>> -      struct mtk_tx_dma_v2 *txd;
>>>>>>>> +      dma_addr = dma_map_single(eth->dma_dev,
>>>>>>>> +                  eth->scratch_head[j], len *
>>>>>>>> MTK_QDMA_PAGE_SIZE,
>>>>>>>> +                  DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As per commit msg, the fix is for transmit queue timeouts.
>>>>>> But the DMA buffer changes seems for receive pkts.
>>>>>> Can you please elaborate the connection here.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *I guess* the memory window used for both, TX and RX DMA
>>> descriptors
>>>> needs to be wisely split to not risk TX queue overruns, depending
>>> on
>>>> the
>>>> SoC speed and without hurting RX performance...
>>>>
>>>> Maybe someone inside MediaTek (I've added to Cc now) and more
>>>> familiar
>>>> with the design can elaborate in more detail.
>>   
>>> We've encountered a transmit queue timeout issue on the MT79888 and
>>> have identified it as being related to the RSS feature.
>>> We suspect this problem arises from a low level of free TX DMADs,
>> the
>>> TX Ring alomost full.
>>> Since RSS is enabled, there are 4 Rx Rings, with each containing
>> 2048
>>> DMADs, totaling 8192 for Rx. In contrast, the Tx Ring has only 2048
>>> DMADs. Tx DMADs will be consumed rapidly during a 10G LAN to 10G WAN
>>> forwarding test, subsequently causing the transmit queue to stop.
>>> Therefore, we reduced the number of Rx DMADs for each ring to
>> balance
>>> both Tx and Rx DMADs, which resolves this issue.
>>
>> Okay, but it’s still not clear why it’s resulting in a transmit
>> timeout.
>> When transmit queue is stopped and after some Tx pkts in the pipeline
>> are flushed out, isn’t
>> Tx queue wakeup not happening ?
>>   
> Yes, the transmit timeout is caused by the Tx queue not waking up.
> The Tx queue stops when the free counter is less than ring->thres, and
> it will wake up once the free counter is greater than ring->thres.
> If the CPU is too late to wake up the Tx queues, it may cause a
> transmit timeout.
> Therefore, we balanced the TX and RX DMADs to improve this error
> situation.

All of this needs to go into the commit message please, thanks!
-- 
Florian



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