This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gve: Remove the code of clearing PBA bit
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:
gve-remove-the-code-of-clearing-pba-bit.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 154195ed99c54abf0f683c998ffe43817d913fbb
Author: Ziwei Xiao <ziweixiao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 9 15:51:23 2023 -0700
gve: Remove the code of clearing PBA bit
[ Upstream commit f4c2e67c1773d2a2632381ee30e9139c1e744c16 ]
Clearing the PBA bit from the driver is race prone and it may lead to
dropped interrupt events. This could potentially lead to the traffic
being completely halted.
Fixes: 5e8c5adf95f8 ("gve: DQO: Add core netdev features")
Signed-off-by: Ziwei Xiao <ziweixiao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bailey Forrest <bcf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
index d3e3ac242bfc3..2e5e0a8872704 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c
@@ -239,19 +239,6 @@ static int gve_napi_poll_dqo(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
bool reschedule = false;
int work_done = 0;
- /* Clear PCI MSI-X Pending Bit Array (PBA)
- *
- * This bit is set if an interrupt event occurs while the vector is
- * masked. If this bit is set and we reenable the interrupt, it will
- * fire again. Since we're just about to poll the queue state, we don't
- * need it to fire again.
- *
- * Under high softirq load, it's possible that the interrupt condition
- * is triggered twice before we got the chance to process it.
- */
- gve_write_irq_doorbell_dqo(priv, block,
- GVE_ITR_NO_UPDATE_DQO | GVE_ITR_CLEAR_PBA_BIT_DQO);
-
if (block->tx)
reschedule |= gve_tx_poll_dqo(block, /*do_clean=*/true);
