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[net] nfp: TX time stamp packets before HW doorbell is rung

Message ID 20170823214150.29989-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Jakub Kicinski Aug. 23, 2017, 9:41 p.m. UTC
TX completion may happen any time after HW queue was kicked.
We can't access the skb afterwards.  Move the time stamping
before ringing the doorbell.

Fixes: 4c3523623dc0 ("net: add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC VFs")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
---
Sorry, another one just popped up.  It has been in the driver 
"for ever", it could go into net-next as well.

 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Aug. 24, 2017, 5:41 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:41:50 -0700

> TX completion may happen any time after HW queue was kicked.
> We can't access the skb afterwards.  Move the time stamping
> before ringing the doorbell.
> 
> Fixes: 4c3523623dc0 ("net: add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC VFs")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>

Applied, thanks.

If I had a nickel for every time this mistake was made...
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c
index 1ff0c577819e..66a09e490cf5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c
@@ -895,6 +895,8 @@  static int nfp_net_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 
 	netdev_tx_sent_queue(nd_q, txbuf->real_len);
 
+	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+
 	tx_ring->wr_p += nr_frags + 1;
 	if (nfp_net_tx_ring_should_stop(tx_ring))
 		nfp_net_tx_ring_stop(nd_q, tx_ring);
@@ -903,8 +905,6 @@  static int nfp_net_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 	if (!skb->xmit_more || netif_xmit_stopped(nd_q))
 		nfp_net_tx_xmit_more_flush(tx_ring);
 
-	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
-
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 
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