[PATCH net] net: stmmac: fix handling of zero coalescing tx-usecs

[Vincent Whitchurch]

Setting ethtool -C eth0 tx-usecs 0 is supposed to disable the use of the
coalescing timer but currently it gets programmed with zero delay
instead.

Disable the use of the coalescing timer if tx-usecs is zero by
preventing it from being restarted.  Note that to keep things simple we
don't start/stop the timer when the coalescing settings are changed, but
just let that happen on the next transmit or timer expiry.

Fixes: 8fce33317023 ("net: stmmac: Rework coalesce timer and fix multi-queue races")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch at axis.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 4727f7be4f86..6931973028ae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -2703,9 +2703,7 @@ static int stmmac_tx_clean(struct stmmac_priv *priv, int budget, u32 queue)
 
 	/* We still have pending packets, let's call for a new scheduling */
 	if (tx_q->dirty_tx != tx_q->cur_tx)
-		hrtimer_start(&tx_q->txtimer,
-			      STMMAC_COAL_TIMER(priv->tx_coal_timer[queue]),
-			      HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+		stmmac_tx_timer_arm(priv, queue);
 
 	__netif_tx_unlock_bh(netdev_get_tx_queue(priv->dev, queue));
 
@@ -2986,9 +2984,13 @@ static int stmmac_init_dma_engine(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
 static void stmmac_tx_timer_arm(struct stmmac_priv *priv, u32 queue)
 {
 	struct stmmac_tx_queue *tx_q = &priv->dma_conf.tx_queue[queue];
+	u32 tx_coal_timer = priv->tx_coal_timer[queue];
+
+	if (!tx_coal_timer)
+		return;
 
 	hrtimer_start(&tx_q->txtimer,
-		      STMMAC_COAL_TIMER(priv->tx_coal_timer[queue]),
+		      STMMAC_COAL_TIMER(tx_coal_timer),
 		      HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
 }
 

---
base-commit: 2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
change-id: 20230904-stmmac-coaloff-aca6befbd24b

Best regards,
-- 
Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch at axis.com>