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| author | Nazim Amirul <muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade@altera.com> | 2026-06-09 15:17:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-06-13 01:55:15 +0300 |
| commit | d3265c19b35d036bba327b36b5366bee76b0157c (patch) | |
| tree | d3f4c20165ab1d56d37e8f7403062816b4af36bf /tools/lib/python/kdoc/python_version.py | |
| parent | 81246a65303d9635266b1334490142caaf86a11f (diff) | |
| download | linux-d3265c19b35d036bba327b36b5366bee76b0157c.tar.xz | |
net: stmmac: xgmac2: disable RBUE in default RX interrupt mask
Enabling the RX Buffer Unavailable (RBUE) interrupt is counterproductive
and can trigger a MAC interrupt storm under heavy RX pressure. When the
DMA runs out of RX descriptors it fires RBUE continuously until software
refills the ring.
However, RBUE is redundant: the normal RX completion interrupt (RIE)
already triggers NAPI, which processes completed descriptors and refills
the ring, causing the DMA to resume. The RBUE handler itself only sets
handle_rx - the same outcome as RIE.
On Agilex5 under heavy RX pressure, the MAC interrupt (which includes
RBUE) was observed firing 1,821,811,555 times against only 2,618,627
actual RX completions - a ~695x ratio - confirming the severity of the
storm.
RBUE does not provide OOM recovery. If page_pool is exhausted,
stmmac_rx_refill() cannot advance the DMA tail pointer, the DMA stays
suspended, and RBUE fires again on the next NAPI completion - a storm
with no forward progress. This patch trades that storm for a clean
stall with the same RX outcome. Proper OOM recovery is a pre-existing
gap outside the scope of this fix.
Note: as a consequence of disabling RBUE, the rx_buf_unav_irq ethtool
counter will always read 0 on XGMAC2 devices. This behaviour is already
inconsistent across DWMAC core versions.
Remove RBUE from XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_EN and XGMAC_DMA_INT_DEFAULT_RX
to prevent the interrupt storm while keeping normal RX handling intact.
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Nazim Amirul <muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade@altera.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609121703.9736-1-muhammad.nazim.amirul.nazle.asmade@altera.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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