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From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
To: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: fix link status to use wait to complete
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:49:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180216104900.GC4256@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16c653c55e2144291ce92c9696ffaa829a70a028.1518684427.git.nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:47:28AM +0100, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> Wait to complete is present to let the application get a correct status
> when it requires it, it should not be ignored.
> 
> Fixes: cb8faed7dde8 ("mlx5: support link status update")
> Cc: adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

Several comments, please see below.

> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c
> index 0ce9f438a..112cc2a40 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c
> @@ -502,11 +502,12 @@ mlx5_dev_supported_ptypes_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>   *
>   * @param dev
>   *   Pointer to Ethernet device structure.
> - * @param wait_to_complete
> - *   Wait for request completion (ignored).
> + *
> + * @return
> + *   0 on success, -1 otherwise.

See below regarding the return value.

>   */
>  static int
> -mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int wait_to_complete)
> +mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  {
>  	struct priv *priv = dev->data->dev_private;
>  	struct ethtool_cmd edata = {
> @@ -518,7 +519,6 @@ mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int wait_to_complete)
>  
>  	/* priv_lock() is not taken to allow concurrent calls. */
>  
> -	(void)wait_to_complete;
>  	if (priv_ifreq(priv, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr)) {
>  		WARN("ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) failed: %s", strerror(errno));
>  		return -1;
> @@ -568,11 +568,9 @@ mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int wait_to_complete)
>   *
>   * @param dev
>   *   Pointer to Ethernet device structure.
> - * @param wait_to_complete
> - *   Wait for request completion (ignored).

You should use this opportunity to document its return value as well.

>   */
>  static int
> -mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int wait_to_complete)
> +mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  {
>  	struct priv *priv = dev->data->dev_private;
>  	struct ethtool_link_settings gcmd = { .cmd = ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS };
> @@ -580,7 +578,6 @@ mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int wait_to_complete)
>  	struct rte_eth_link dev_link;
>  	uint64_t sc;
>  
> -	(void)wait_to_complete;
>  	if (priv_ifreq(priv, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr)) {
>  		WARN("ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) failed: %s", strerror(errno));
>  		return -1;
> @@ -708,6 +705,9 @@ priv_link_stop(struct priv *priv)
>   *   Pointer to private structure.
>   * @param wait_to_complete
>   *   Wait for request completion (ignored).
> + *
> + * @return
> + *   0 on success, negative value otherwise.

How about "0 on success, negative errno value otherwise" according to
subsequent comments.

>   */
>  int
>  priv_link_update(struct priv *priv, int wait_to_complete)
> @@ -720,10 +720,16 @@ priv_link_update(struct priv *priv, int wait_to_complete)
>  		current_version >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 0) :
>  		0;
>  
> -	if (use_new_api)
> -		ret = mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(dev, wait_to_complete);
> -	else
> -		ret = mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gs(dev, wait_to_complete);
> +	do {
> +		if (use_new_api)
> +			ret = mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(dev);
> +		else
> +			ret = mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gs(dev);
> +		if (ret == -1)
> +			return -EAGAIN;

Like for system calls, EAGAIN isn't an acceptable error in case
wait_to_complete (blocking mode) is requested. It must be some other reason.

This check should be replaced with my next suggestion.

> +	} while(wait_to_complete && !ret);

Missing space after "while".

One issue is when wait_to_complete is enabled and link status never settles
down due to bad cabling or buggy SFP. I think this function should give up
and return an error after a while (not -EAGAIN in this case but -EIO, -EBUSY
or even -EINTR to reflect the call had to be interrupted due to HW trouble).

You could use MLX5_MAX_LINK_QUERY_ATTEMPTS for that, e.g.:

 int attempt = MLX5_MAX_LINK_QUERY_ATTEMPTS;
 [...]
 while (1) {
    [...]
    if (!wait_to_complete || ret != -EAGAIN || !attempt--)
        break;
    sleep(1);  
 }

> +	if (ret == -EAGAIN)
> +		return ret;

Since neither function may return anything other than -1 in case of error at
the moment and since their wait_to_complete argument is being removed, I
suggest to make them properly non-blocking by default (i.e. O_NONBLOCK on
their ioctl() FD), then return -errno in case of error on intermediate
system calls, then the above check will make sense.

>  	/* If lsc interrupt is disabled, should always be ready for traffic. */
>  	if (!dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc) {
>  		priv_link_start(priv);
> @@ -755,10 +761,11 @@ int
>  priv_force_link_status_change(struct priv *priv, int status)
>  {
>  	int try = 0;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	while (try < MLX5_MAX_LINK_QUERY_ATTEMPTS) {
> -		priv_link_update(priv, 0);
> -		if (priv->dev->data->dev_link.link_status == status)
> +		ret = priv_link_update(priv, 0);
> +		if (!ret && priv->dev->data->dev_link.link_status == status)
>  			return 0;
>  		try++;
>  		sleep(1);

I think this function could be removed in the same patch (with e313ef4c2fe8
"net/mlx5: fix link state on device start" partially reverted) since a call
to priv_link_update(priv, 1) would now result in the same behavior.

-- 
Adrien Mazarguil
6WIND

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-16 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-15  8:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: add kernel version function Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-02-15  8:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx5: fix link status to use wait to complete Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-02-16 10:49   ` Adrien Mazarguil [this message]
2018-02-16 12:08     ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-02-16 10:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: add kernel version function Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-16 18:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-19  7:42   ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] net/mlx5: cleanup link status Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-19 19:15   ` Shahaf Shuler
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/mlx5: remove kernel version check Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] net/mlx5: fix link status behavior Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-13 21:54   ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-14 12:18     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-03-14 17:40       ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-14 19:00         ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-03-14 12:22     ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-03-15 18:08   ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-12 13:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] net/mlx5: fix link status to use wait to complete Nelio Laranjeiro

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