Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 2/2] drivers: net: virtio_net: Add tx_timeout function

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Oct 07 2019 - 03:52:00 EST


On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 03:45:15PM -0300, jcfaracco@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> To enable dev_watchdog, virtio_net should have a tx_timeout defined
> (.ndo_tx_timeout). This is only a skeleton to throw a warn message. It
> notifies the event in some specific queue of device. This function
> still counts tx_timeout statistic and consider this event as an error
> (one error per queue), reporting it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daiane Mendes <dnmendes76@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 27f9b212c9f5..4b703b4b9441 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -2585,6 +2585,29 @@ static int virtnet_set_features(struct net_device *dev,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static void virtnet_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> + struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> + u32 i;
> +
> + /* find the stopped queue the same way dev_watchdog() does */

not really - the watchdog actually looks at trans_start.

> + for (i = 0; i < vi->curr_queue_pairs; i++) {
> + struct send_queue *sq = &vi->sq[i];
> +
> + if (!netif_xmit_stopped(netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i)))
> + continue;
> +
> + u64_stats_update_begin(&sq->stats.syncp);
> + sq->stats.tx_timeouts++;
> + u64_stats_update_end(&sq->stats.syncp);
> +
> + netdev_warn(dev, "TX timeout on send queue: %d, sq: %s, vq: %d, name: %s\n",
> + i, sq->name, sq->vq->index, sq->vq->name);

this seems to assume any running queue is timed out.
doesn't look right.

also - there's already a warning in this case in the core. do we need another one?

> + dev->stats.tx_errors++;



> + }
> +}
> +
> static const struct net_device_ops virtnet_netdev = {
> .ndo_open = virtnet_open,
> .ndo_stop = virtnet_close,
> @@ -2600,6 +2623,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops virtnet_netdev = {
> .ndo_features_check = passthru_features_check,
> .ndo_get_phys_port_name = virtnet_get_phys_port_name,
> .ndo_set_features = virtnet_set_features,
> + .ndo_tx_timeout = virtnet_tx_timeout,
> };
>
> static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
> @@ -3018,6 +3042,9 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> dev->netdev_ops = &virtnet_netdev;
> dev->features = NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
>
> + /* Set up dev_watchdog cycle. */
> + dev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
> +

Seems to be still broken with napi_tx = false.

> dev->ethtool_ops = &virtnet_ethtool_ops;
> SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &vdev->dev);
>
> --
> 2.21.0