sfc: Disable flow control during flushes
authorSteve Hodgson <shodgson@solarflare.com>
Mon, 23 May 2011 11:18:45 +0000 (12:18 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:25:07 +0000 (00:25 +0000)
commita606f4325dca6950996abbae452d33f2af095f39
tree5d39056ca66b6be3190ff9df902eb404acc17eda
parent90893000e21e2d52a0a9d5aa0c4234c90bcd9470
sfc: Disable flow control during flushes

The TX DMA engine issues upstream read requests when there is room in
the TX FIFO for the completion. However, the fetches for the rest of
the packet might be delayed by any back pressure.  Since a flush must
wait for an EOP, the entire flush may be delayed by back pressure.

Mitigate this by disabling flow control before the flushes are
started.  Since PF and VF flushes run in parallel introduce
fc_disable, a reference count of the number of flushes outstanding.

The same principle could be applied to Falcon, but that
would bring with it its own testing.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi_mac.c
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c