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e1000e: Fix TX dispatch condition
authorAkihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 (22:00 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:30:44 +0000 (11:30 +0100)
commit237833cbbd780508e4555ef003f4008192e22ed9
tree1041c5d531de3026f1ce7dcf164f016bc08c94c3
parent5f538382bee63d9f3ff264d143f128e6626a6cc7
e1000e: Fix TX dispatch condition

[ Upstream commit cda6f1ba3e484f951a7e6427aa5a361e69b4725e ]

e1000_xmit_frame is expected to stop the queue and dispatch frames to
hardware if there is not sufficient space for the next frame in the
buffer, but sometimes it failed to do so because the estimated maximum
size of frame was wrong. As the consequence, the later invocation of
e1000_xmit_frame failed with NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and the frame in the buffer
remained forever, resulting in a watchdog failure.

This change fixes the estimated size by making it match with the
condition for NETDEV_TX_BUSY. Apparently, the old estimation failed to
account for the following lines which determines the space requirement
for not causing NETDEV_TX_BUSY:
    ```
     /* reserve a descriptor for the offload context */
     if ((mss) || (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL))
     count++;
     count++;

     count += DIV_ROUND_UP(len, adapter->tx_fifo_limit);
    ```

This issue was found when running http-stress02 test included in Linux
Test Project 20220930 on QEMU with the following commandline:
```
qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35,accel=kvm -m 8G -smp 8
-drive if=virtio,format=raw,file=root.img,file.locking=on
-device e1000e,netdev=netdev
-netdev tap,script=ifup,downscript=no,id=netdev
```

Fixes: 3f32e81cc0ea ("[E1000E]: New pci-express e1000 driver (currently for ICH9 devices only)")
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Tested-by: Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Tested-by: Naama Meir <naamax.meir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c