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| author |   Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com> | 2012-09-23 22:39:08 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-09-24 16:25:16 -0400 |
| commit | b98b8babd6e3370fadb7c6eaacb00eb2f6344a6c (patch) | |
| tree | 84490a56fe0cbeffd6082d54d9bf3172efd1668a /drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h | |
| parent | net: loopback: set default mtu to 64K (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-b98b8babd6e3370fadb7c6eaacb00eb2f6344a6c.tar.xz linux-dev-b98b8babd6e3370fadb7c6eaacb00eb2f6344a6c.zip | |
gianfar: Change default HW Tx queue scheduling mode
This is primarily to address transmission timeout occurrences, when
multiple H/W Tx queues are being used concurrently. Because in
the priority scheduling mode the controller does not service the
Tx queues equally (but in ascending index order), Tx timeouts are
being triggered rightaway for a basic test with multiple simultaneous
connections like:
iperf -c <server_ip> -n 100M -P 8
resulting in kernel trace:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 (fsl-gianfar): transmit queue <X> timed out
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:255
...
and controller reset during intense traffic, and possibly further
complications.
This patch changes the default H/W Tx scheduling setting (TXSCHED)
for multi-queue devices, from priority scheduling mode to a weighted
round robin mode with equal weights for all H/W Tx queues, and
addresses the issue above.
Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h index 2136c7ff5e6d..4141ef2ddafc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h @@ -301,8 +301,16 @@ extern const char gfar_driver_version[]; #define TCTRL_TFCPAUSE 0x00000008 #define TCTRL_TXSCHED_MASK 0x00000006 #define TCTRL_TXSCHED_INIT 0x00000000 +/* priority scheduling */ #define TCTRL_TXSCHED_PRIO 0x00000002 +/* weighted round-robin scheduling (WRRS) */ #define TCTRL_TXSCHED_WRRS 0x00000004 +/* default WRRS weight and policy setting, + * tailored to the tr03wt and tr47wt registers: + * equal weight for all Tx Qs, measured in 64byte units + */ +#define DEFAULT_WRRS_WEIGHT 0x18181818 + #define TCTRL_INIT_CSUM (TCTRL_TUCSEN | TCTRL_IPCSEN) #define IEVENT_INIT_CLEAR 0xffffffff @@ -1098,7 +1106,8 @@ struct gfar_private { extended_hash:1, bd_stash_en:1, rx_filer_enable:1, - wol_en:1; /* Wake-on-LAN enabled */ + wol_en:1, /* Wake-on-LAN enabled */ + prio_sched_en:1; /* Enable priorty based Tx scheduling in Hw */ unsigned short padding; /* PHY stuff */ |