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pktgen: bug when calling ndelay in x86 architectures

Message ID 1319144138.2854.33.camel@edumazet-laptop
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Oct. 20, 2011, 8:55 p.m. UTC 
Le jeudi 20 octobre 2011 à 16:24 -0400, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:47:44 +0200
> 
> > Le mardi 18 octobre 2011 à 15:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> > 
> >> AIUI, the reason for limits on delays is not that it's bad practice to
> >> spin for so long, but that the delay calculations may overflow or
> >> otherwise become inaccurate.
> > 
> > OK, I can understand that, then a more appropriate patch would be :
> 
> I think doing the udelay/ndelay thing is the way to go for 'net' and
> -stable.  We can do something sophisticated with ktime et al. in
> 'net-next'.
> 

Well, I am not sure a patch is needed for net, since there is no bug,
but maybe small inaccuracies ? Correct me if I misunderstood Daniel !

> Eric, could you please formally submit this patch with proper
> changelog etc.?

Sure !

[PATCH net-next] pktgen: remove ndelay() call

Daniel Turull reported inaccuracies in pktgen when using low packet
rates, because we call ndelay(val) with values bigger than 20000.

Instead of calling ndelay() for delays < 100us, we can instead loop
calling ktime_now() only.

Reported-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 net/core/pktgen.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)



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David Miller Oct. 20, 2011, 9:02 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:55:38 +0200

> Well, I am not sure a patch is needed for net, since there is no bug,
> but maybe small inaccuracies ? Correct me if I misunderstood Daniel !

Ok that appears to be the case, so this is not something we should
deal with in the 'net' tree.

The constant ndelay() case would purposely cause a build failure for
values larger than 40000, but the specific call site we are discussing
in pktgen is never constant and therefore should would never trigger
that bug check.

>> Eric, could you please formally submit this patch with proper
>> changelog etc.?
> 
> Sure !
> 
> [PATCH net-next] pktgen: remove ndelay() call

Applied, thanks!
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 6bbf008..0001c24 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -2145,9 +2145,12 @@  static void spin(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, ktime_t spin_until)
 	}
 
 	start_time = ktime_now();
-	if (remaining < 100000)
-		ndelay(remaining);	/* really small just spin */
-	else {
+	if (remaining < 100000) {
+		/* for small delays (<100us), just loop until limit is reached */
+		do {
+			end_time = ktime_now();
+		} while (ktime_lt(end_time, spin_until));
+	} else {
 		/* see do_nanosleep */
 		hrtimer_init_sleeper(&t, current);
 		do {
@@ -2162,8 +2165,8 @@  static void spin(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, ktime_t spin_until)
 			hrtimer_cancel(&t.timer);
 		} while (t.task && pkt_dev->running && !signal_pending(current));
 		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+		end_time = ktime_now();
 	}
-	end_time = ktime_now();
 
 	pkt_dev->idle_acc += ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(end_time, start_time));
 	pkt_dev->next_tx = ktime_add_ns(spin_until, pkt_dev->delay);