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authorClaudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>2012-09-23 22:39:08 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-09-24 16:25:16 -0400
commitb98b8babd6e3370fadb7c6eaacb00eb2f6344a6c (patch)
tree84490a56fe0cbeffd6082d54d9bf3172efd1668a /drivers/net/ethernet/freescale
parent0cf833aefaa85bbfce3ff70485e5534e09254773 (diff)
gianfar: Change default HW Tx queue scheduling mode
This is primarily to address transmission timeout occurrences, when multiple H/W Tx queues are being used concurrently. Because in the priority scheduling mode the controller does not service the Tx queues equally (but in ascending index order), Tx timeouts are being triggered rightaway for a basic test with multiple simultaneous connections like: iperf -c <server_ip> -n 100M -P 8 resulting in kernel trace: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 (fsl-gianfar): transmit queue <X> timed out ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 ... and controller reset during intense traffic, and possibly further complications. This patch changes the default H/W Tx scheduling setting (TXSCHED) for multi-queue devices, from priority scheduling mode to a weighted round robin mode with equal weights for all H/W Tx queues, and addresses the issue above. Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/freescale')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c11
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h11
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index 4d5b58ce129..a1b52ec3b93 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -394,7 +394,13 @@ static void gfar_init_mac(struct net_device *ndev)
if (ndev->features & NETIF_F_IP_CSUM)
tctrl |= TCTRL_INIT_CSUM;
- tctrl |= TCTRL_TXSCHED_PRIO;
+ if (priv->prio_sched_en)
+ tctrl |= TCTRL_TXSCHED_PRIO;
+ else {
+ tctrl |= TCTRL_TXSCHED_WRRS;
+ gfar_write(&regs->tr03wt, DEFAULT_WRRS_WEIGHT);
+ gfar_write(&regs->tr47wt, DEFAULT_WRRS_WEIGHT);
+ }
gfar_write(&regs->tctrl, tctrl);
@@ -1160,6 +1166,9 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
priv->rx_filer_enable = 1;
/* Enable most messages by default */
priv->msg_enable = (NETIF_MSG_IFUP << 1 ) - 1;
+ /* use pritority h/w tx queue scheduling for single queue devices */
+ if (priv->num_tx_queues == 1)
+ priv->prio_sched_en = 1;
/* Carrier starts down, phylib will bring it up */
netif_carrier_off(dev);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
index 2136c7ff5e6..4141ef2ddaf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
@@ -301,8 +301,16 @@ extern const char gfar_driver_version[];
#define TCTRL_TFCPAUSE 0x00000008
#define TCTRL_TXSCHED_MASK 0x00000006
#define TCTRL_TXSCHED_INIT 0x00000000
+/* priority scheduling */
#define TCTRL_TXSCHED_PRIO 0x00000002
+/* weighted round-robin scheduling (WRRS) */
#define TCTRL_TXSCHED_WRRS 0x00000004
+/* default WRRS weight and policy setting,
+ * tailored to the tr03wt and tr47wt registers:
+ * equal weight for all Tx Qs, measured in 64byte units
+ */
+#define DEFAULT_WRRS_WEIGHT 0x18181818
+
#define TCTRL_INIT_CSUM (TCTRL_TUCSEN | TCTRL_IPCSEN)
#define IEVENT_INIT_CLEAR 0xffffffff
@@ -1098,7 +1106,8 @@ struct gfar_private {
extended_hash:1,
bd_stash_en:1,
rx_filer_enable:1,
- wol_en:1; /* Wake-on-LAN enabled */
+ wol_en:1, /* Wake-on-LAN enabled */
+ prio_sched_en:1; /* Enable priorty based Tx scheduling in Hw */
unsigned short padding;
/* PHY stuff */