Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet 
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:22:43 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet 
> 
> The cited commit makes a great job of finding optimal shift/multiplier
> values assuming a 10 seconds wrap around, but forgot to change the
> overflow_period computation.
> 
> It overflows in cyclecounter_cyc2ns(), and the final result is 804 ms,
> which is silly.
> 
> Lets simply use 5 seconds, no need to recompute this, given how it is
> supposed to work.
> 
> Later, we will use a timer instead of a work queue, since the new RX
> allocation schem will no longer need mlx4_en_recover_from_oom() and the
> service_task firing every 250 ms.
> 
> Fixes: 31c128b66e5b ("net/mlx4_en: Choose time-stamping shift value according 
> to HW frequency")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 

Applied, thanks.

Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

[Tariq Toukan]

On 24/02/2017 1:22 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:

From: Eric Dumazet 

The cited commit makes a great job of finding optimal shift/multiplier
values assuming a 10 seconds wrap around, but forgot to change the
overflow_period computation.

It overflows in cyclecounter_cyc2ns(), and the final result is 804 ms,
which is silly.

Lets simply use 5 seconds, no need to recompute this, given how it is
supposed to work.

Later, we will use a timer instead of a work queue, since the new RX
allocation schem will no longer need mlx4_en_recover_from_oom() and the
service_task firing every 250 ms.

Fixes: 31c128b66e5b ("net/mlx4_en: Choose time-stamping shift value according to HW 
frequency")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Tariq Toukan 
Cc: Eugenia Emantayev 
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c |   18 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h  |1
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)



Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan 

Thanks for your patch.

Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

[Or Gerlitz]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:21 PM, David Miller  wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet 
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017

> Tariq please review.

Dave,

Just to re-iterate what we wrote here couple of time, the IL WW is
Sun-Thu on GMT+2 hours and hence this patch was sent when the
developers/maintainer are into weekend mode.

Or.

Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet 
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:22:43 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet 
> 
> The cited commit makes a great job of finding optimal shift/multiplier
> values assuming a 10 seconds wrap around, but forgot to change the
> overflow_period computation.
> 
> It overflows in cyclecounter_cyc2ns(), and the final result is 804 ms,
> which is silly.
> 
> Lets simply use 5 seconds, no need to recompute this, given how it is
> supposed to work.
> 
> Later, we will use a timer instead of a work queue, since the new RX
> allocation schem will no longer need mlx4_en_recover_from_oom() and the
> service_task firing every 250 ms.
> 
> Fixes: 31c128b66e5b ("net/mlx4_en: Choose time-stamping shift value according 
> to HW frequency")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 

Tariq please review.

[PATCH net] net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

[Eric Dumazet]

From: Eric Dumazet 

The cited commit makes a great job of finding optimal shift/multiplier
values assuming a 10 seconds wrap around, but forgot to change the
overflow_period computation.

It overflows in cyclecounter_cyc2ns(), and the final result is 804 ms,
which is silly.

Lets simply use 5 seconds, no need to recompute this, given how it is
supposed to work.

Later, we will use a timer instead of a work queue, since the new RX
allocation schem will no longer need mlx4_en_recover_from_oom() and the
service_task firing every 250 ms.

Fixes: 31c128b66e5b ("net/mlx4_en: Choose time-stamping shift value according 
to HW frequency")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Tariq Toukan 
Cc: Eugenia Emantayev 
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c |   18 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h  |1 
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c
index 
e7b81a305469e64b97f68bc0e2bcb064b78f08fe..024788549c2569a13d3a07ebbde718cccf980a26
 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c
@@ -89,10 +89,17 @@ void mlx4_en_remove_timestamp(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev)
}
 }
 
+#define MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC10UL
+/* By scheduling the overflow check every 5 seconds, we have a reasonably
+ * good chance we wont miss a wrap around.
+ * TOTO: Use a timer instead of a work queue to increase the guarantee.
+ */
+#define MLX4_EN_OVERFLOW_PERIOD (MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC * HZ / 2)
+
 void mlx4_en_ptp_overflow_check(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev)
 {
bool timeout = time_is_before_jiffies(mdev->last_overflow_check +
- mdev->overflow_period);
+ MLX4_EN_OVERFLOW_PERIOD);
unsigned long flags;
 
if (timeout) {
@@ -237,7 +244,6 @@ static const struct ptp_clock_info mlx4_en_ptp_clock_info = 
{
.enable = mlx4_en_phc_enable,
 };
 
-#define MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC10ULL
 
 /* This function calculates the max shift that enables the user range
  * of MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC values in the cycles register.
@@ -258,7 +264,6 @@ void mlx4_en_init_timestamp(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev)
 {
struct mlx4_dev *dev = mdev->dev;
unsigned long flags;
-   u64 ns, zero = 0;
 
/* mlx4_en_init_timestamp is called for each netdev.
 * mdev->ptp_clock is common for all ports, skip initialization if
@@ -282,13 +287,6 @@ void mlx4_en_init_timestamp(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev)
 ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_real()));
write_sequnlock_irqrestore(>clock_lock, flags);
 
-   /* Calculate period in seconds to call the overflow watchdog - to make
-* sure counter is checked at least once every wrap around.
-*/
-   ns = cyclecounter_cyc2ns(>cycles, mdev->cycles.mask, zero, );
-   do_div(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC / 2 / HZ);
-   mdev->overflow_period = ns;
-
/* Configure the PHC */
mdev->ptp_clock_info = mlx4_en_ptp_clock_info;
snprintf(mdev->ptp_clock_info.name, 16, "mlx4 ptp");
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index 
4941b692e9479bc7800e92f9bfb13baf3ff7d0d4..3629ce11a68b9dec5c1659539bdc6f2c4e35
 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_dev {
seqlock_t   clock_lock;
struct timecounter  clock;
unsigned long   last_overflow_check;
-   unsigned long   overflow_period;
struct ptp_clock*ptp_clock;
struct ptp_clock_info   ptp_clock_info;
struct notifier_block   nb;