On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 09:00:05PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerhard Engleder <gerh...@engleder-embedded.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 3:54 PM
> > To: Shradha Gupta <shradhagu...@linux.microsoft.com>; linux-
> > hyp...@vger.kernel.org; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> > ker...@vger.kernel.org; linux-r...@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> > <haiya...@microsoft.com>; Wei Liu <wei....@kernel.org>; Dexuan Cui
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> > Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>; Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org>; Paolo
> > Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>; Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>; Simon Horman
> > <ho...@kernel.org>; Konstantin Taranov <kotara...@microsoft.com>;
> > Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakraba...@linux.microsoft.com>; Erick Archer
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> > Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.z...@intel.com>; Colin Ian King
> > <colin.i.k...@gmail.com>; Shradha Gupta <shradhagu...@microsoft.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Improve mana_set_channels() for
> > low mem conditions
> > 
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> > On 29.08.24 16:16, Shradha Gupta wrote:
> > > The mana_set_channels() function requires detaching the mana
> > > driver and reattaching it with changed channel values.
> > > During this operation if the system is low on memory, the reattach
> > > might fail, causing the network device being down.
> > > To avoid this we pre-allocate buffers at the beginning of set
> > operation,
> > > to prevent complete network loss
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shradha Gupta <shradhagu...@linux.microsoft.com>
> > > ---
> > >   .../ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c    | 28 +++++++++++-------
> > -
> > >   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c
> > > index d6a35fbda447..5077493fdfde 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c
> > > @@ -345,27 +345,31 @@ static int mana_set_channels(struct net_device
> > *ndev,
> > >       struct mana_port_context *apc = netdev_priv(ndev);
> > >       unsigned int new_count = channels->combined_count;
> > >       unsigned int old_count = apc->num_queues;
> > > -     int err, err2;
> > > +     int err;
> > > +
> > > +     apc->num_queues = new_count;
> > > +     err = mana_pre_alloc_rxbufs(apc, ndev->mtu);
> > > +     apc->num_queues = old_count;
> > 
> > Are you sure that temporary changing num_queues has no side effects on
> > other num_queues users like mana_chn_setxdp()?
> > 
> 
> mana_chn_setxdp() is protected by rtnl_lock, which is OK. But I'm not sure
> if all other users are protected. mana_get_stats64() seems not.
> 
> @Shradha Gupta You can add num_queues as an argument of 
> mana_pre_alloc_rxbufs()
> to avoid changing apc->num_queues.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Haiyang

Thanks Haiyang and Gerhard. Instead of changing the apc structure value,
I will pass it to the mana_pre_alloc_rxbufs() function in the next
version. That should make sure other calls are unaffected.

Thanks,
Shradha.

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