The insertion of an empty frame was introduced with
commit db0b124f02 ("igc: Enhance Qbv scheduling by using first flag bit")
in order to ensure that the current cycle has at least one packet if
there is some packet to be scheduled for the next cycle.
However, the current implementation does not properly check if
a packet is already scheduled for the current cycle. Currently,
an empty packet is always inserted if and only if
txtime >= end_of_cycle && txtime > last_tx_cycle
but since last_tx_cycle is always either the end of the current
cycle (end_of_cycle) or the end of a previous cycle, the
second part (txtime > last_tx_cycle) is always true unless
txtime == last_tx_cycle.
What actually needs to be checked here is if the last_tx_cycle
was already written within the current cycle, so an empty frame
should only be inserted if and only if
txtime >= end_of_cycle && end_of_cycle > last_tx_cycle.
This patch does not only avoid an unnecessary insertion, but it
can actually be harmful to insert an empty packet if packets
are already scheduled in the current cycle, because it can lead
to a situation where the empty packet is actually processed
as the first packet in the upcoming cycle shifting the packet
with the first_flag even one cycle into the future, finally leading
to a TX hang.
The TX hang can be reproduced on a i225 with:
sudo tc qdisc replace dev enp1s0 parent root handle 100 taprio \
num_tc 1 \
map 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 \
queues 1@0 \
base-time 0 \
sched-entry S 01 300000 \
flags 0x1 \
txtime-delay 500000 \
clockid CLOCK_TAI
sudo tc qdisc replace dev enp1s0 parent 100:1 etf \
clockid CLOCK_TAI \
delta 500000 \
offload \
skip_sock_check
and traffic generator
sudo trafgen -i traffic.cfg -o enp1s0 --cpp -n0 -q -t1400ns
with traffic.cfg
#define ETH_P_IP 0x0800
{
/* Ethernet Header */
0x30, 0x1f, 0x9a, 0xd0, 0xf0, 0x0e, # MAC Dest - adapt as needed
0x24, 0x5e, 0xbe, 0x57, 0x2e, 0x36, # MAC Src - adapt as needed
const16(ETH_P_IP),
/* IPv4 Header */
0b01000101, 0, # IPv4 version, IHL, TOS
const16(1028), # IPv4 total length (UDP length + 20 bytes (IP header))
const16(2), # IPv4 ident
0b01000000, 0, # IPv4 flags, fragmentation off
64, # IPv4 TTL
17, # Protocol UDP
csumip(14, 33), # IPv4 checksum
/* UDP Header */
10, 0, 48, 1, # IP Src - adapt as needed
10, 0, 48, 10, # IP Dest - adapt as needed
const16(5555), # UDP Src Port
const16(6666), # UDP Dest Port
const16(1008), # UDP length (UDP header 8 bytes + payload length)
csumudp(14, 34), # UDP checksum
/* Payload */
fill('W', 1000),
}
and the observed message with that is for example
igc 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0: Detected Tx Unit Hang
Tx Queue <0>
TDH <32>
TDT <3c>
next_to_use <3c>
next_to_clean <32>
buffer_info[next_to_clean]
time_stamp <ffff26a8>
next_to_watch <00000000632a1828>
jiffies <ffff27f8>
desc.status <1048000>
Fixes: db0b124f02 ("igc: Enhance Qbv scheduling by using first flag bit")
Signed-off-by: Florian Kauer <florian.kauer@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Naama Meir <naamax.meir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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