On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 01:59:57PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Lieber Michal,
>
>
> Am 13.12.23 um 14:23 schrieb Michal Kubiak:
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 05:50:55PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
>
> > > On 12/12/23 15:55, Michal Kubiak wrote:
> > > > From: Joshua Hay <joshua.a....@intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > Tell hardware to writeback completed descriptors even when interrupts
> > >
> > > Should you resend, the verb is spelled with a space: write back.
> >
> > Sure, I will fix it.
>
> Thanks.
Will be fixed in v2.
>
> > > > are disabled. Otherwise, descriptors might not be written back until
> > > > the hardware can flush a full cacheline of descriptors. This can cause
> > > > unnecessary delays when traffic is light (or even trigger Tx queue
> > > > timeout).
> > >
> > > How can the problem be reproduced and the patch be verified?
>
> […]
>
> > To be honest, I have noticed the problem during the implementation of
> > AF_XDP feature for IDPF driver. In my scenario, I had 2 Tx queues:
> > - regular LAN Tx queue
> > - and XDP Tx queue
> > added to the same q_vector attached to the same NAPI, so those 2 Tx
> > queues were handled in the same NAPI poll loop.
> > Then, when I started a huge Tx zero-copy trafic using AF_XDP (on the XDP
> > queue), and, at the same time, tried to xmit a few packets using the second
> > (non-XDP) queue (e.g. with scapy), I was getting the Tx timeout on that
> > regular
> > LAN Tx queue.
> > That is why I decided to upstream this fix. With disabled writebacks,
> > there is no chance to get the completion descriptor for the queue where
> > the traffic is much lighter.
> >
> > I have never tried to reproduce the scenario described by Joshua
> > in his original patch ("unnecessary delays when traffic is light").
>
> Understood. Maybe you could add a summary of the above to the commit message
> or just copy and paste. I guess, it’s better than nothing. And thank you for
> upstreaming this.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
Right. I have to add some kdocs, so I will also extend that commit message in
v2.
Thanks,
Michal
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