gianfar: Simplify MQ polling to avoid soft lockup
authorClaudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:05:09 +0000 (17:05 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:54:43 +0000 (15:54 -0400)
commit3ba405db1c1b05d157474c71e559393f7ea436ad
tree89895769b4a4a7e78674f7d1b4503b94ce20635b
parent9877b25382e770618d0a36a3024d8a3c67eee9ea
gianfar: Simplify MQ polling to avoid soft lockup

Under certain low traffic conditions, the single core
devices with multiple Rx/Tx queues (MQ mode) may reach
soft lockup due to gfar_poll not returning in proper time.
The following exception was obtained using iperf on a 100Mbit
half-duplex link, for a p1010 single core device:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [iperf:2847]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 2847 Comm: iperf Not tainted 3.12.0-rc3 #16
task: e8bf8000 ti: eeb16000 task.ti: ee646000
NIP: c0255b6c LR: c0367ae8 CTR: c0461c18
REGS: eeb17e70 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted  (3.12.0-rc3)
MSR: 00029000 <CE,EE,ME>  CR: 44228428  XER: 20000000

GPR00: c0367ad4 eeb17f20 e8bf8000 ee01f4b4 00000008 ffffffff ffffffff
00000000
GPR08: 000000c0 00000008 000000ff ffffffc0 000193fe
NIP [c0255b6c] find_next_bit+0xb8/0xc4
LR [c0367ae8] gfar_poll+0xc8/0x1d8
Call Trace:
[eeb17f20] [c0367ad4] gfar_poll+0xb4/0x1d8 (unreliable)
[eeb17f70] [c0422100] net_rx_action+0xa4/0x158
[eeb17fa0] [c003ec6c] __do_softirq+0xcc/0x17c
[eeb17ff0] [c000c28c] call_do_softirq+0x24/0x3c
[ee647cc0] [c0004660] do_softirq+0x6c/0x94
[ee647ce0] [c003eb9c] local_bh_enable+0x9c/0xa0
[ee647cf0] [c0454fe8] tcp_prequeue_process+0xa4/0xdc
[ee647d10] [c0457e44] tcp_recvmsg+0x498/0x96c
[ee647d80] [c047b630] inet_recvmsg+0x40/0x64
[ee647da0] [c040ca8c] sock_recvmsg+0x90/0xc0
[ee647e30] [c040edb8] SyS_recvfrom+0x98/0xfc

To prevent this, the outer while() loop has been removed
allowing gfar_poll() to return faster even if there's
still budget left.  Also, there's no need to recompute
the budget per Rx queue anymore.

Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c