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    sfc: fix lack of XDP TX queues - error XDP TX failed (-22) · f28100cb
    Íñigo Huguet authored
    Fixes: e26ca4b5 sfc: reduce the number of requested xdp ev queues
    
    The buggy commit intended to allocate less channels for XDP in order to
    be more unlikely to reach the limit of 32 channels of the driver.
    
    The idea was to use each IRQ/eventqeue for more XDP TX queues than
    before, calculating which is the maximum number of TX queues that one
    event queue can handle. For example, in EF10 each event queue could
    handle up to 8 queues, better than the 4 they were handling before the
    change. This way, it would have to allocate half of channels than before
    for XDP TX.
    
    The problem is that the TX queues are also contained inside the channel
    structs, and there are only 4 queues per channel. Reducing the number of
    channels means also reducing the number of queues, resulting in not
    having the desired number of 1 queue per CPU.
    
    This leads to getting errors on XDP_TX and XDP_REDIRECT if they're
    executed from a high numbered CPU, because there only exist queues for
    the low half of CPUs, actually. If XDP_TX/REDIRECT is executed in a low
    numbered CPU, the error doesn't happen. This is the error in the logs
    (repeated many times, even rate limited):
    sfc 0000:5e:00.0 ens3f0np0: XDP TX failed (-22)
    
    This errors happens in function efx_xdp_tx_buffers, where it expects to
    have a dedicated XDP TX queue per CPU.
    
    Reverting the change makes again more likely to reach the limit of 32
    channels in machines with many CPUs. If this happen, no XDP_TX/REDIRECT
    will be possible at all, and we will have this log error messages:
    
    At interface probe:
    sfc 0000:5e:00.0: Insufficient resources for 12 XDP event queues (24 other channels, max 32)
    
    At every subsequent XDP_TX/REDIRECT failure, rate limited:
    sfc 0000:5e:00.0 ens3f0np0: XDP TX failed (-22)
    
    However, without reverting the change, it makes the user to think that
    everything is OK at probe time, but later it fails in an unpredictable
    way, depending on the CPU that handles the packet.
    
    It is better to restore the predictable behaviour. If the user sees the
    error message at probe time, he/she can try to configure the best way it
    fits his/her needs. At least, he/she will have 2 options:
    - Accept that XDP_TX/REDIRECT is not available (he/she may not need it)
    - Load sfc module with modparam 'rss_cpus' with a lower number, thus
      creating less normal RX queues/channels, letting more free resources
      for XDP, with some performance penalty.
    
    Anyway, let the calculation of maximum TX queues that can be handled by
    a single event queue, and use it only if it's less than the number of TX
    queues per channel. This doesn't happen in practice, but could happen if
    some constant values are tweaked in the future, such us
    EFX_MAX_TXQ_PER_CHANNEL, EFX_MAX_EVQ_SIZE or EFX_MAX_DMAQ_SIZE.
    
    Related mailing list thread:
    https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201215104327.2be76156@carbon/Signed-off-by: default avatarÍñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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