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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2014 06:06:32 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: status of AVILA and CAMBRIA code
Message-ID:  <20140303040631.GA85204@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <1393818757.1149.267.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
References:  <20140219105934.GA74731@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <20140219172938.GH34851@funkthat.com> <20140221130530.GA202@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <1393001249.1145.98.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20140224132614.GA31984@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <20140301104431.GA82389@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <1393818757.1149.267.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 08:52:37PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:44 +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:26:14PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > > Hi Ian,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:47:29AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 15:05 +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:29:38AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > > > > > John Hay wrote this message on Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:59 +0200:
> > > > > > > What is the status of AVILA and CAMBRIA builds in our tree? Have anybody
> > > > > > > had success recently? From the lists I can see that other people have
> > > > > > > also asked in September 2013, but I cannot figure out if there was any
> > > > > > > successes at that stage. :-)
> > > > > ...
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Somewhere along the line the ethernet npe0 device also broke, writing
> > > > > > > "npe0: npestart_locked: too many fragments 0". But I did not test the
> > > > > > > npe0 device with every build and only realised it this morning, so I
> > > > > > > do not know where it broke. :-)
> > 
> > It looks like adding a few bus_dmamap_unload()s in if_npe.c fixed it. Here is
> > my patch that seems to fix it. Does it look ok? Can I commit it?
> > 
> > Index: xscale/ixp425/if_npe.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- xscale/ixp425/if_npe.c	(revision 246713)
> > +++ xscale/ixp425/if_npe.c	(working copy)
> > @@ -1037,6 +1037,8 @@
> >  
> >  		sc = npes[NPE_QM_Q_NPE(entry)];
> >  		npe = P2V(NPE_QM_Q_ADDR(entry), &sc->txdma);
> > +		bus_dmamap_sync(sc->txdma.mtag, npe->ix_map, BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE);
> > +		bus_dmamap_unload(sc->txdma.mtag, npe->ix_map);
> >  		m_freem(npe->ix_m);
> >  		npe->ix_m = NULL;
> >  
> > @@ -1112,6 +1114,12 @@
> >  
> >  		DPRINTF(sc, "%s: entry 0x%x neaddr 0x%x ne_len 0x%x\n",
> >  		    __func__, entry, npe->ix_neaddr, npe->ix_hw->ix_ne[0].len);
> > +
> > +		/* Flush mbuf memory for rx'd data */
> > +		bus_dmamap_sync(dma->mtag, npe->ix_map,
> > +		    BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD);
> > +		bus_dmamap_unload(dma->mtag, npe->ix_map);
> > +
> >  		/*
> >  		 * Allocate a new mbuf to replenish the rx buffer.
> >  		 * If doing so fails we drop the rx'd frame so we
> > @@ -1126,10 +1134,6 @@
> >  			struct npehwbuf *hw = npe->ix_hw;
> >  			struct ifnet *ifp = sc->sc_ifp;
> >  
> > -			/* Flush mbuf memory for rx'd data */
> > -			bus_dmamap_sync(dma->mtag, npe->ix_map,
> > -			    BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD);
> > -
> >  			/* XXX flush hw buffer; works now 'cuz coherent */
> >  			/* set m_len etc. per rx frame size */
> >  			mrx->m_len = be32toh(hw->ix_ne[0].len) & 0xffff;
> > 
> > John
> 
> I think this is more correct, but one more thing is needed... it looks
> like design here was to load a map then not unload it until the next
> time you're about to load it.  I think that's a bad idea and your
> changes are the better way, but there are still a few unload calls
> scattered around that now need to be deleted because they would be
> unloading a map that was already unloaded when the IO completed.

Thanks, I'll look into the other unloads. I get the feeling that the
design was actually to only unload if the interface is stopped which
worked fine until map->sync_count was introduced in arm/busdma_machdep.c?

Regards

John
-- 
John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@meraka.org.za



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