[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] net/ixgbevf: unregister irq handler when other interrupts not allowed.

Tonghao Zhang xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 09:57:23 CET 2018


On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Dai, Wei <wei.dai at intel.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com [mailto:xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 6:04 PM
>> To: Dai, Wei <wei.dai at intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH v3 1/6] net/ixgbevf: unregister irq handler when other
>> interrupts not allowed.
>>
>> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
>>
>> When bind the ixgbe VF (e.g 82599 card) to igb_uio and enable the
>> rx-interrupt, there will be more than one epoll_wait on intr_handle.fd.
>> One is in "eal-intr-thread" thread, and the others are in the thread which call
>> the "rte_epoll_wait". The problem is that sometimes "eal-intr-thread" thread
>> will process the rx interrupt, and then rte_epoll_wait can't get the event
>> anymore, and the packets may be lost.
>>
>> The patch unregister the status interrupt handler in "eal-intr-thread"
>> thread and the ixgbe pf is in the same case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
>> Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> In my feedback to your v2 version of this patch, I mentioned miscellaneous interrupt
> need to be handled in eal-intr-thread.
> Your patch removes the handler of PF->VF reset event and leads to missing of
> this event.
> My suggestion is still using VFIO-PCI instead of igb_uio for rx-queue interrupt.
I got it, Thanks for your review.

>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> index ff19a56..0e056a2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> @@ -5078,6 +5078,15 @@ static int
>> ixgbevf_dev_xstats_get_names(__rte_unused struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>>       }
>>       ixgbevf_configure_msix(dev);
>>
>> +     if (!rte_intr_allow_others(intr_handle)) {
>> +             rte_intr_callback_unregister(intr_handle,
>> +                                          ixgbevf_dev_interrupt_handler,
>> +                                          dev);
>> +             if (dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc != 0)
>> +                     PMD_INIT_LOG(INFO, "lsc won't enable because of"
>> +                                  " no intr multiplex");
>> +     }
>> +
>>       /* When a VF port is bound to VFIO-PCI, only miscellaneous interrupt
>>        * is mapped to VFIO vector 0 in eth_ixgbevf_dev_init( ).
>>        * If previous VFIO interrupt mapping setting in eth_ixgbevf_dev_init( )
>> @@ -5120,6 +5129,12 @@ static int
>> ixgbevf_dev_xstats_get_names(__rte_unused struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>>
>>       ixgbe_dev_clear_queues(dev);
>>
>> +     if (!rte_intr_allow_others(intr_handle))
>> +             /* resume to the default handler */
>> +             rte_intr_callback_register(intr_handle,
>> +                                        ixgbevf_dev_interrupt_handler,
>> +                                        (void *)dev);
>> +
>>       /* Clean datapath event and queue/vec mapping */
>>       rte_intr_efd_disable(intr_handle);
>>       if (intr_handle->intr_vec != NULL) {
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>


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