During testing of SR-IOV, Red Hat QE encountered an issue where the
ip link up command intermittently fails for the igbvf interfaces when
using the PREEMPT_RT variant. Investigation revealed that
e1000_write_posted_mbx returns an error due to the lack of an ACK
from e1000_poll_for_ack.
The underlying issue arises from the fact that IRQs are threaded by
default under PREEMPT_RT. While the exact hardware details are not
available, it appears that the IRQ handled by igb_msix_other must
be processed before e1000_poll_for_ack times out. However,
e1000_write_posted_mbx is called with preemption disabled, leading
to a scenario where the IRQ is serviced only after the failure of
e1000_write_posted_mbx.
To resolve this, we set IRQF_NO_THREAD for the affected interrupt,
ensuring that the kernel handles it immediately, thereby preventing
the aforementioned error.
Reproducer:
#!/bin/bash
# echo 2 > /sys/class/net/ens14f0/device/sriov_numvfs
ipaddr_vlan=3
nic_test=ens14f0
vf=${nic_test}v0
while true; do
ip link set ${nic_test} mtu 1500
ip link set ${vf} mtu 1500
ip link set $vf up
ip link set ${nic_test} vf 0 vlan ${ipaddr_vlan}
ip addr add 172.30.${ipaddr_vlan}.1/24 dev ${vf}
ip addr add 2021:db8:${ipaddr_vlan}::1/64 dev ${vf}
if ! ip link show $vf | grep 'state UP'; then
echo 'Error found'
break
fi
ip link set $vf down
done
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
Fixes: 9d5c824399 ("igb: PCI-Express 82575 Gigabit Ethernet driver")
Reported-by: Yuying Ma <yuma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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