Drivers call netdev_tx_completed_queue() right before
netif_txq_maybe_wake(). If BQL is enabled netdev_tx_completed_queue()
should issue a memory barrier, so we can depend on that separating
the stop check from the consumer index update, instead of adding
another barrier in netif_txq_maybe_wake().
This matters more than the barriers on the xmit path, because
the wake condition is almost always true. So we issue the
consumer side barrier often.
Wrap netdev_tx_completed_queue() in a local helper to issue
the barrier even if BQL is disabled. Keep the same semantics
as netdev_tx_completed_queue() (barrier only if bytes != 0)
to make it clear that the barrier is conditional.
Plus since macro gets pkt/byte counts as arguments now -
we can skip waking if there were no packets completed.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
A lot of drivers follow the same scheme to stop / start queues
without introducing locks between xmit and NAPI tx completions.
I'm guessing they all copy'n'paste each other's code.
The original code dates back all the way to e1000 and Linux 2.6.19.
Smaller drivers shy away from the scheme and introduce a lock
which may cause deadlocks in netpoll.
Provide macros which encapsulate the necessary logic.
The macros do not prevent false wake ups, the extra barrier
required to close that race is not worth it. See discussion in:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c39312a2-4537-14b4-270c-9fe1fbb91e89@gmail.com/
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Heiner Kallweit