nfp: prevent dropped counter increment during probe

Browse source

The dev_rx_discards counter will increment by one when an interface is
toggled up and down. The main reason is that the driver first sends a
`NFP_NET_CFG_CTRL_ENABLE` configuration packet to the NIC to perform port
initialisation when an interface is set up. But there is a race between
physical link up and free list queue initialization which may lead to the
configuration packet being discarded.

To address this problem a new bit NFP_NET_CFG_CTRL_FREELIST_EN is added to
perform free list initialisation on the NIC. The FREELIST_EN should be sent
in advance to initialize free list queue. When a port is set to down,
FREELIST_EN should be sent after CTRL_ENABLE to avoid packet discards.

Signed-off-by: Ziyang Chen <ziyang.chen@corigine.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712123551.13858-1-louis.peens@corigine.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

...

This commit is contained in:

Ziyang Chen 2023-07-12 14:35:51 +02:00 • committed by Jakub Kicinski

parent 6f13b49b57

commit bec9ce3407

2 changed files with 48 additions and 7 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

54

drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c

View file

1

drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ctrl.h

View file