net/mlx4_en: Schedule napi when RX buffers allocation fails

When system is out of memory, refilling of RX buffers fails while
the driver continue to pass the received packets to the kernel stack.
At some point, when all RX buffers deplete, driver may fall into a
sleep, and not recover when memory for new RX buffers is once again
availible. This is because hardware does not have valid descriptors,
so no interrupt will be generated for the driver to return to work
in napi context. Fix it by schedule the napi poll function from
stats_task delayed workqueue, as long as the allocations fail.

Signed-off-by: Ido Shamay <idos@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index bf173d7b873bf2dd4ab11e2d22da442e21b51f71..32f5ec7374723d1315f4234f77b12ffbe5adcfe0 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -1467,6 +1467,7 @@ static void mlx4_en_service_task(struct work_struct *work)
                if (mdev->dev->caps.flags2 & MLX4_DEV_CAP_FLAG2_TS)
                        mlx4_en_ptp_overflow_check(mdev);
 
+               mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(priv);
                queue_delayed_work(mdev->workqueue, &priv->service_task,
                                   SERVICE_TASK_DELAY);
        }

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
index 4fdd3c37e47bf7c7862b9edf569be6f7f38e8dae..2a77a6b191216b19059c89fa8ad386252684806c 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
@@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ static int mlx4_en_prepare_rx_desc(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
        return mlx4_en_alloc_frags(priv, rx_desc, frags, ring->page_alloc, gfp);
 }
 
+static inline bool mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(struct mlx4_en_rx_ring *ring)
+{
+       BUG_ON((u32)(ring->prod - ring->cons) > ring->actual_size);
+       return ring->prod == ring->cons;
+}
+
 static inline void mlx4_en_update_rx_prod_db(struct mlx4_en_rx_ring *ring)
 {
        *ring->wqres.db.db = cpu_to_be32(ring->prod & 0xffff);
@@ -315,8 +321,7 @@ static void mlx4_en_free_rx_buf(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
               ring->cons, ring->prod);
 
        /* Unmap and free Rx buffers */
-       BUG_ON((u32) (ring->prod - ring->cons) > ring->actual_size);
-       while (ring->cons != ring->prod) {
+       while (!mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(ring)) {
                index = ring->cons & ring->size_mask;
                en_dbg(DRV, priv, "Processing descriptor:%d\n", index);
                mlx4_en_free_rx_desc(priv, ring, index);
@@ -491,6 +496,23 @@ err_allocator:
        return err;
 }
 
+/* We recover from out of memory by scheduling our napi poll
+ * function (mlx4_en_process_cq), which tries to allocate
+ * all missing RX buffers (call to mlx4_en_refill_rx_buffers).
+ */
+void mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
+{
+       int ring;
+
+       if (!priv->port_up)
+               return;
+
+       for (ring = 0; ring < priv->rx_ring_num; ring++) {
+               if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring]))
+                       napi_reschedule(&priv->rx_cq[ring]->napi);
+       }
+}
+
 void mlx4_en_destroy_rx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
                             struct mlx4_en_rx_ring **pring,
                             u32 size, u16 stride)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index 9de30216b146bb09188a6867307b5bbcf7aa9dd0..d021f079f181b06bb6ec73250ea8493ad87d1cee 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -774,6 +774,7 @@ int mlx4_en_activate_tx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
 void mlx4_en_deactivate_tx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
                                struct mlx4_en_tx_ring *ring);
 void mlx4_en_set_num_rx_rings(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev);
+void mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv);
 int mlx4_en_create_rx_ring(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv,
                           struct mlx4_en_rx_ring **pring,
                           u32 size, u16 stride, int node);