Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: lan966x: Add support for FDMA

[Michael Walle]

Am 2022-03-18 13:10, schrieb Horatiu Vultur:
> The 03/18/2022 12:07, Michael Walle wrote:
> > > Currently when injecting or extracting a frame from CPU, the frame
> > > is given to the HW each word at a time. There is another way to
> > > inject/extract frames from CPU using FDMA(Frame Direct Memory Access).
> > > In this way the entire frame is given to the HW. This improves both
> > > RX and TX bitrate.
> >
> > I wanted to test this. ping and such works fine and I'm also
> > seeing fdma interrupts.
>
> Thanks for testing this also on your board.
>
> > But as soon as I try iperf3 I get a skb_panic
> > (due to frame size?). Hope that splash below helps.
>
> I have not seen this issue. But it looks like it is a problem that 
> there
> is no more space to add the FCS.
> Can you tell me how you run iperf3 so I can also try it?

oh, I forgot to include the commandline.

# on the remote computer
$ iperf3 --version
iperf 3.6 (cJSON 1.5.2)
Linux eddie01 4.19.0-18-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.19.208-1 (2021-09-29) 
i686
Optional features available: CPU affinity setting, IPv6 flow label, 
SCTP, TCP congestion algorithm setting, sendfile / zerocopy, socket 
pacing, authentication
$ iperf3 -s

# on the board
$ iperf3 --version
iperf 3.10.1 (cJSON 1.7.13)
Linux buildroot 5.17.0-rc8-next-20220316-00058-gc6cb0628f2a6-dirty #385 
SMP Fri Mar 18 13:34:26 CET 2022 armv7l
Optional features available: CPU affinity setting, IPv6 flow label, TCP 
congestion algorithm setting, sendfile / zerocopy, socket pacing, bind 
to device, support IPv4 don't fragment
$ iperf3 -c eddie01

> Also I have a small diff that might fix the issue:
> ---
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_fdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_fdma.c
> @@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ int lan966x_fdma_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32
> *ifh, struct net_device *dev)
>         struct lan966x_tx_dcb *next_dcb, *dcb;
>         struct lan966x_tx *tx = &lan966x->tx;
>         struct lan966x_db *next_db;
> +       int needed_headroom;
> +       int needed_tailroom;
>         dma_addr_t dma_addr;
>         int next_to_use;
>         int err;
> @@ -554,10 +556,11 @@ int lan966x_fdma_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> __be32 *ifh, struct net_device *dev)
>
>         /* skb processing */
>         skb_tx_timestamp(skb);

btw. skb_tx_timestamp() should be as close to the handover
of the frame to the hardware as possible, no?

> -       if (skb_headroom(skb) < IFH_LEN * sizeof(u32)) {
> -               err = pskb_expand_head(skb,
> -                                      IFH_LEN * sizeof(u32) -
> skb_headroom(skb),
> -                                      0, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +       needed_headroom = max_t(int, IFH_LEN * sizeof(u32) -
> skb_headroom(skb), 0);
> +       needed_tailroom = max_t(int, ETH_FCS_LEN - skb_tailroom(skb), 
> 0);
> +       if (needed_headroom || needed_tailroom) {
> +               err = pskb_expand_head(skb, needed_headroom, 
> needed_tailroom,
> +                                      GFP_ATOMIC);
>                 if (unlikely(err)) {
>                         dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
>                         err = NETDEV_TX_OK;

Indeed this will fix the issue:

# iperf3 -c eddie01
Connecting to host eddie01, port 5201
[  5] local 10.0.1.143 port 55342 connected to 10.0.1.42 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.01   sec  43.8 MBytes   364 Mbits/sec    0    245 KBytes
[  5]   1.01-2.02   sec  43.8 MBytes   364 Mbits/sec    0    246 KBytes
[  5]   2.02-3.03   sec  43.8 MBytes   364 Mbits/sec    0    259 KBytes

# iperf3 -R -c eddie01
Connecting to host eddie01, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host eddie01 is sending
[  5] local 10.0.1.143 port 55346 connected to 10.0.1.42 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  28.6 MBytes   240 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  28.9 MBytes   242 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  28.7 MBytes   241 Mbits/sec

-michael