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![]() While playing with mlx4 hardware timestamping of RX packets, I found that some packets were received by TCP stack with a ~200 ms delay... Since the timestamp was provided by the NIC, and my probe was added in tcp_v4_rcv() while in BH handler, I was confident it was not a sender issue, or a drop in the network. This would happen with a very low probability, but hurting RPC workloads. A NAPI driver normally arms the IRQ after the napi_complete_done(), after NAPI_STATE_SCHED is cleared, so that the hard irq handler can grab it. Problem is that if another point in the stack grabs NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit while IRQ are not disabled, we might have later an IRQ firing and finding this bit set, right before napi_complete_done() clears it. This can happen with busy polling users, or if gro_flush_timeout is used. But some other uses of napi_schedule() in drivers can cause this as well. thread 1 thread 2 (could be on same cpu, or not) // busy polling or napi_watchdog() napi_schedule(); ... napi->poll() device polling: read 2 packets from ring buffer Additional 3rd packet is available. device hard irq // does nothing because NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is owned by thread 1 napi_schedule(); napi_complete_done(napi, 2); rearm_irq(); Note that rearm_irq() will not force the device to send an additional IRQ for the packet it already signaled (3rd packet in my example) This patch adds a new NAPI_STATE_MISSED bit, that napi_schedule_prep() can set if it could not grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED Then napi_complete_done() properly reschedules the napi to make sure we do not miss something. Since we manipulate multiple bits at once, use cmpxchg() like in sk_busy_loop() to provide proper transactions. In v2, I changed napi_watchdog() to use a relaxed variant of napi_schedule_prep() : No need to set NAPI_STATE_MISSED from this point. In v3, I added more details in the changelog and clears NAPI_STATE_MISSED in busy_poll_stop() In v4, I added the ideas given by Alexander Duyck in v3 review Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.