This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5e: Overcome slow response for first macsec ASO WQE
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5e-overcome-slow-response-for-first-macsec-as.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4b169baf2a00533f769a9a043333d7ad35243a98
Author: Emeel Hakim <ehakim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 20 13:13:55 2023 +0200
net/mlx5e: Overcome slow response for first macsec ASO WQE
[ Upstream commit 7e3fce82d945cf6e7f99034b113ff2d250d7524d ]
First ASO WQE poll causes a cache miss in hardware hence the resut is
delayed. It causes to the situation where such WQE is polled earlier
than it is needed.
Add logic to retry ASO CQ polling operation.
Fixes: 739cfa34518e ("net/mlx5: Make ASO poll CQ usable in atomic context")
Signed-off-by: Emeel Hakim <ehakim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Raed Salem <raeds@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
index 0c23340bfcc75..0f8f3ce35537d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
@@ -1412,6 +1412,7 @@ static int macsec_aso_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev, struct mlx5e_macsec *mac
struct mlx5e_macsec_aso *aso;
struct mlx5_aso_wqe *aso_wqe;
struct mlx5_aso *maso;
+ unsigned long expires;
int err;
aso = &macsec->aso;
@@ -1425,7 +1426,13 @@ static int macsec_aso_query(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev, struct mlx5e_macsec *mac
macsec_aso_build_wqe_ctrl_seg(aso, &aso_wqe->aso_ctrl, NULL);
mlx5_aso_post_wqe(maso, false, &aso_wqe->ctrl);
- err = mlx5_aso_poll_cq(maso, false);
+ expires = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(10);
+ do {
+ err = mlx5_aso_poll_cq(maso, false);
+ if (err)
+ usleep_range(2, 10);
+ } while (err && time_is_after_jiffies(expires));
+
if (err)
goto err_out;
