i40e/i40evf: Detect and recover hung queue scenario

In VFs, there is a known issue which can cause writebacks
to not occur when interrupts are disabled and there are
less than 4 descriptors resulting in TX timeout. Timeout
can also occur due to lost interrupt.

The current implementation for detecting and recovering
from hung queues in the PF is problematic because it actually
actively encourages lost interrupts.  By triggering a SW
interrupt, interrupts are forced on.  If we are already in
napi_poll and an interrupt fires, napi_poll will not be
rescheduled and the interrupt is effectively lost; thereby
potentially *causing* hung queues.

This patch checks whether packets are being processed between
every watchdog cycle and determine potential hung queue and
fires triggers SW interrupt only for that particular queue.

Signed-off-by: Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
index 2d08760fc4ce..d4799b41e98a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ struct i40e_tx_queue_stats {
 	u64 tx_done_old;
 	u64 tx_linearize;
 	u64 tx_force_wb;
+	int prev_pkt_ctr;
 };
 
 struct i40e_rx_queue_stats {
@@ -501,6 +502,7 @@ void i40e_free_rx_resources(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring);
 int i40e_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget);
 void i40e_force_wb(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, struct i40e_q_vector *q_vector);
 u32 i40e_get_tx_pending(struct i40e_ring *ring);
+void i40e_detect_recover_hung(struct i40e_vsi *vsi);
 int __i40e_maybe_stop_tx(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, int size);
 bool __i40e_chk_linearize(struct sk_buff *skb);