Re: [PATCH v4 iwl-net] i40e: Prevent setting MTU if greater than MFS

[Brett Creeley]

On 3/13/2024 2:07 AM, Erwan Velu wrote:
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> Commit 6871a7de705 ("[intelxl] Use admin queue to set port MAC address
> and maximum frame size") from iPXE project set the MFS to 0x600 = 1536.
> See https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/6871a7de705
>
> At boot time the i40e driver complains about it with
> the following message but continues.
>
>          MFS for port 1 has been set below the default: 600
>
> If the MTU size is increased, the driver accepts it but large packets will
> not be processed by the firmware generating tx_errors. The issue is pretty
> silent for users. i.e doing TCP in such context will generates lots of
> retransmissions until the proper window size (below 1500) will be used.
>
> To fix this case, it would have been ideal to increase the MFS,
> via i40e_aqc_opc_set_mac_config, incoming patch will take care of it.
>
> At least, commit prevents setting up an MTU greater than the current MFS.
> It will avoid being in the position of having an MTU set to 9000 on the
> netdev with a firmware refusing packets larger than 1536.
>
> A typical trace looks like:
> [  377.548696] i40e 0000:5d:00.0 eno5: Error changing mtu to 9000, Max is 1500. MFS is too small.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erwan Velu <e.velu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 10 +++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> index f86578857e8a..85ecf2f3de18 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
> @@ -2946,7 +2946,7 @@ static int i40e_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
>          struct i40e_netdev_priv *np = netdev_priv(netdev);
>          struct i40e_vsi *vsi = np->vsi;
>          struct i40e_pf *pf = vsi->back;
> -       int frame_size;
> +       int frame_size, mfs, max_mtu;
>
>          frame_size = i40e_max_vsi_frame_size(vsi, vsi->xdp_prog);
>          if (new_mtu > frame_size - I40E_PACKET_HDR_PAD) {
> @@ -2955,6 +2955,14 @@ static int i40e_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
>                  return -EINVAL;
>          }
>
> +       mfs = pf->hw.phy.link_info.max_frame_size;
> +       max_mtu = mfs - I40E_PACKET_HDR_PAD;

If this is how the max_mtu is determined, does it make sense to set this 
before registering the netdev, i.e. netdev->max_mtu in i40e_config_netdev()?

Thanks,

Brett

> +       if (new_mtu > max_mtu) {
> +               netdev_err(netdev, "Error changing mtu to %d, Max is %d. MFS is too small.\n",
> +                          new_mtu, max_mtu);
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       }
> +
>          netdev_dbg(netdev, "changing MTU from %d to %d\n",
>                     netdev->mtu, new_mtu);
>          netdev->mtu = new_mtu;
> --
> 2.44.0