From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6c7273a266759d9d36f7c862149f248bcdeddc0f upstream. Commit c685c69fba71 ("ixgbe: don't do any AF_XDP zero-copy transmit if netif is not OK") addressed the ring transient state when MEM_TYPE_XSK_BUFF_POOL was being configured which in turn caused the interface to through down/up. Maurice reported that when carrier is not ok and xsk_pool is present on ring pair, ksoftirqd will consume 100% CPU cycles due to the constant NAPI rescheduling as ixgbe_poll() states that there is still some work to be done. To fix this, do not set work_done to false for a !netif_carrier_ok(). Fixes: c685c69fba71 ("ixgbe: don't do any AF_XDP zero-copy transmit if netif is not OK") Reported-by: Maurice Baijens <maurice.baijens@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Maurice Baijens <maurice.baijens@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sandeep Penigalapati <sandeep.penigalapati@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c @@ -583,12 +583,14 @@ static bool ixgbe_xmit_zc(struct ixgbe_r u32 cmd_type; while (budget-- > 0) { - if (unlikely(!ixgbe_desc_unused(xdp_ring)) || - !netif_carrier_ok(xdp_ring->netdev)) { + if (unlikely(!ixgbe_desc_unused(xdp_ring))) { work_done = false; break; } + if (!netif_carrier_ok(xdp_ring->netdev)) + break; + if (!xsk_umem_consume_tx(xdp_ring->xsk_umem, &desc)) break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maciej.fijalkowski@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/ixgbe-xsk-change-netif_carrier_ok-handling-in-ixgbe_xmit_zc.patch