Hi Tony, On Wed Jun 12 2024, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote: > When running the igc with XDP/ZC in busy polling mode with deferral of hard > interrupts, interrupts still happen from time to time. That is caused by > the igc task watchdog which triggers Rx interrupts periodically. > > That mechanism has been introduced to overcome skb/memory allocation > failures [1]. So the Rx clean functions stop processing the Rx ring in case > of such failure. The task watchdog triggers Rx interrupts periodically in > the hope that memory became available in the mean time. > > The current behavior is undesirable for real time applications, because the > driver induced Rx interrupts trigger also the softirq processing. However, > all real time packets should be processed by the application which uses the > busy polling method. > > Therefore, only trigger the Rx interrupts in case of real allocation > failures. Introduce a new flag for signaling that condition. > > [1] - > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=3be507547e6177e5c808544bd6a2efa2c7f1d436 > > Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <k...@linutronix.de>
Can you drop this patch from your queue, please? I've found one issue with this if the number of queues is reconfigured e.g., with 'ethtool -L combined 1'. The number of vectors is not necessarily the number of rx rings. I'll update this patch and sent v2. Thanks, Kurt
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