[PATCH 2/2] net/cnxk: avoid NPC Rx and MCAM entries disable

Rahul Bhansali rbhansali at marvell.com
Thu Jun 27 11:08:59 CEST 2024


For inline IPsec, Rx misses are observed during dev stop process.
There can be a situation of 2nd pass packets are being dropped and
can cause a buffer leak.
To handle such case, will avoid NPC Rx and MCAM entries disable in
dev stop. These will be handled in dev close routine.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali at marvell.com>
---
 drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev.c
index db8feca620..38746c81c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev.c
@@ -1625,18 +1625,26 @@ cnxk_nix_dev_stop(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
 	int count, i, j, rc;
 	void *rxq;
 
-	/* Disable all the NPC entries */
-	rc = roc_npc_mcam_enable_all_entries(&dev->npc, 0);
-	if (rc)
-		return rc;
+	/* In case of Inline IPSec, will need to avoid disabling the MCAM rules and NPC Rx
+	 * in this routine to continue processing of second pass inflight packets if any.
+	 * Drop of second pass packets will leak first pass buffers on some platforms
+	 * due to hardware limitations.
+	 */
+	if (roc_feature_nix_has_second_pass_drop() ||
+	    !(dev->rx_offloads & RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_SECURITY)) {
+		/* Disable all the NPC entries */
+		rc = roc_npc_mcam_enable_all_entries(&dev->npc, 0);
+		if (rc)
+			return rc;
+
+		/* Disable Rx via NPC */
+		roc_nix_npc_rx_ena_dis(&dev->nix, false);
+	}
 
 	/* Stop link change events */
 	if (!roc_nix_is_vf_or_sdp(&dev->nix))
 		roc_nix_mac_link_event_start_stop(&dev->nix, false);
 
-	/* Disable Rx via NPC */
-	roc_nix_npc_rx_ena_dis(&dev->nix, false);
-
 	roc_nix_inl_outb_soft_exp_poll_switch(&dev->nix, false);
 
 	/* Stop inline device RQ first */
@@ -2047,6 +2055,11 @@ cnxk_eth_dev_uninit(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev, bool reset)
 	/* Clear the flag since we are closing down */
 	dev->configured = 0;
 
+	/* Disable all the NPC entries */
+	rc = roc_npc_mcam_enable_all_entries(&dev->npc, 0);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
 	roc_nix_npc_rx_ena_dis(nix, false);
 
 	/* Restore 802.3 Flow control configuration */
-- 
2.25.1



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