RE: [PATCH net] net: fec: tx processing does not call XDP APIs if budget is 0

[Wei Fang]

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:08:32 +0000 Wei Fang wrote:
> > > Actually after talking with Jakub a bit more there is an issue here,
> > > but not freeing the frames isn't the solution. We likely need to
> > > just fix the page pool code so that it doesn't attempt to recycle
> > > the frames if operating in IRQ context.
> > >
> > > The way this is dealt with for skbs is that we queue skbs if we are
> > > in IRQ context so that it can be deferred to be freed by the
> > > net_tx_action. We likely need to look at doing something similar for
> > > page_pool pages or XDP frames.
> > >
> > After reading your discussion with Jakub, I understand this issue a bit more.
> > But we are not sure when this issue will be fixed in page pool,
> > currently we can only tolerate a delay in sending of a netpoll
> > message. So I think this patch is necessary, and I will refine it in
> > the future when the page pool has fixed the issue. In addition, as you
> > mentioned before, napi_consume_skb should be used to instead of
> dev_kfree_skb_any, so I will improve this patch in version 2.
> 
> I think so too, since the patch can only help, you already wrote it and it won't
> be extra backporting work since the code is only present in
> 6.5 - I think it's worth applying. And we can refine things as page pool
> limitations get listed (the napi_consume_skb() is net-next material, anyway).
Okay, thank you. :)