The flags IGC_TXQCTL_STRICT_CYCLE and IGC_TXQCTL_STRICT_END
prevent the packet transmission over slot and cycle boundaries.
This is important for taprio offload where the slots and
cycles correspond to the slots and cycles configured for the
network.
However, the Qbv offload feature of the i225 is also used for
enabling TX launchtime / ETF offload. In that case, however,
the cycle has no meaning for the network and is only used
internally to adapt the base time register after a second has
passed.
Enabling strict mode in this case would unnecessarily prevent
the transmission of certain packets (i.e. at the boundary of a
second) and thus interferes with the ETF qdisc that promises
transmission at a certain point in time.
Similar to ETF, this also applies to CBS offload that also should
not be influenced by strict mode unless taprio offload would be
enabled at the same time.
This fully reverts
commit d8f45be01d ("igc: Use strict cycles for Qbv scheduling")
but its commit message only describes what was already implemented
before that commit. The difference to a plain revert of that commit
is that it now copes with the base_time = 0 case that was fixed with
commit e17090eb24 ("igc: allow BaseTime 0 enrollment for Qbv")
In particular, enabling strict mode leads to TX hang situations
under high traffic if taprio is applied WITHOUT taprio offload
but WITH ETF offload, e.g. as in
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 <d0>
TDT <f0>
next_to_use <f0>
next_to_clean <d0>
buffer_info[next_to_clean]
time_stamp <ffff661f>
next_to_watch <00000000245a4efb>
jiffies <ffff6e48>
desc.status <1048000>
Fixes: d8f45be01d ("igc: Use strict cycles for Qbv scheduling")
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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