ixgbe: Defeature Tx Head writeback

Tx Head writeback is causing multi-microsecond stalls on PCIe chipsets, due
to partial cacheline writebacks.  Removing this feature removes these
issues.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 850361a4c38d..8e270b63e806 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -204,9 +204,6 @@ static inline bool ixgbe_check_tx_hang(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
 #define DESC_NEEDED (TXD_USE_COUNT(IXGBE_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD) /* skb->data */ + \
         MAX_SKB_FRAGS * TXD_USE_COUNT(PAGE_SIZE) + 1) /* for context */
 
-#define GET_TX_HEAD_FROM_RING(ring) (\
-        *(volatile u32 *) \
-        ((union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc *)(ring)->desc + (ring)->count))
 static void ixgbe_tx_timeout(struct net_device *netdev);
 
 /**
@@ -217,26 +214,27 @@ static void ixgbe_tx_timeout(struct net_device *netdev);
 static bool ixgbe_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
                                struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring)
 {
-        union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc *tx_desc;
-        struct ixgbe_tx_buffer *tx_buffer_info;
         struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev;
-        struct sk_buff *skb;
-        unsigned int i;
-        u32 head, oldhead;
-        unsigned int count = 0;
+        union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc *tx_desc, *eop_desc;
+        struct ixgbe_tx_buffer *tx_buffer_info;
+        unsigned int i, eop, count = 0;
         unsigned int total_bytes = 0, total_packets = 0;
 
-        rmb();
-        head = GET_TX_HEAD_FROM_RING(tx_ring);
-        head = le32_to_cpu(head);
         i = tx_ring->next_to_clean;
-        while (1) {
-                while (i != head) {
+        eop = tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i].next_to_watch;
+        eop_desc = IXGBE_TX_DESC_ADV(*tx_ring, eop);
+
+        while ((eop_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(IXGBE_TXD_STAT_DD)) &&
+               (count < tx_ring->count)) {
+                bool cleaned = false;
+                for ( ; !cleaned; count++) {
+                        struct sk_buff *skb;
                         tx_desc = IXGBE_TX_DESC_ADV(*tx_ring, i);
                         tx_buffer_info = &tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i];
+                        cleaned = (i == eop);
                         skb = tx_buffer_info->skb;
 
-                        if (skb) {
+                        if (cleaned && skb) {
                                 unsigned int segs, bytecount;
 
                                 /* gso_segs is currently only valid for tcp */
@@ -251,23 +249,17 @@ static bool ixgbe_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
                         ixgbe_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(adapter,
                                                          tx_buffer_info);
 
+                        tx_desc->wb.status = 0;
+
                         i++;
                         if (i == tx_ring->count)
                                 i = 0;
-
-                        count++;
-                        if (count == tx_ring->count)
-                                goto done_cleaning;
                 }
-                oldhead = head;
-                rmb();
-                head = GET_TX_HEAD_FROM_RING(tx_ring);
-                head = le32_to_cpu(head);
-                if (head == oldhead)
-                        goto done_cleaning;
-        } /* while (1) */
-
-done_cleaning:
+
+                eop = tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i].next_to_watch;
+                eop_desc = IXGBE_TX_DESC_ADV(*tx_ring, eop);
+        }
+
         tx_ring->next_to_clean = i;
 
 #define TX_WAKE_THRESHOLD (DESC_NEEDED * 2)
@@ -301,8 +293,8 @@ done_cleaning:
 
         tx_ring->total_bytes += total_bytes;
         tx_ring->total_packets += total_packets;
-        tx_ring->stats.bytes += total_bytes;
         tx_ring->stats.packets += total_packets;
+        tx_ring->stats.bytes += total_bytes;
         adapter->net_stats.tx_bytes += total_bytes;
         adapter->net_stats.tx_packets += total_packets;
         return (total_packets ? true : false);
@@ -1484,7 +1476,7 @@ static void ixgbe_configure_msi_and_legacy(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
  **/
 static void ixgbe_configure_tx(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
 {
-        u64 tdba, tdwba;
+        u64 tdba;
         struct ixgbe_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
         u32 i, j, tdlen, txctrl;
 
@@ -1497,11 +1489,6 @@ static void ixgbe_configure_tx(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
                 IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDBAL(j),
                                 (tdba & DMA_32BIT_MASK));
                 IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDBAH(j), (tdba >> 32));
-                tdwba = ring->dma +
-                        (ring->count * sizeof(union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc));
-                tdwba |= IXGBE_TDWBAL_HEAD_WB_ENABLE;
-                IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDWBAL(j), tdwba & DMA_32BIT_MASK);
-                IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDWBAH(j), (tdwba >> 32));
                 IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDLEN(j), tdlen);
                 IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDH(j), 0);
                 IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_TDT(j), 0);
@@ -2880,8 +2867,7 @@ int ixgbe_setup_tx_resources(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
         memset(tx_ring->tx_buffer_info, 0, size);
 
         /* round up to nearest 4K */
-        tx_ring->size = tx_ring->count * sizeof(union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc) +
-                        sizeof(u32);
+        tx_ring->size = tx_ring->count * sizeof(union ixgbe_adv_tx_desc);
         tx_ring->size = ALIGN(tx_ring->size, 4096);
 
         tx_ring->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, tx_ring->size,