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ibmvnic: Properly dispose of all skbs during a failover.

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During a reset, there may have been transmits in flight that are no
longer valid and cannot be fulfilled.  Resetting and clearing the
queues is insufficient; each skb also needs to be explicitly freed
so that upper levels are not left waiting for confirmation of a
transmit that will never happen.  If this happens frequently enough,
the apparent backlog will cause TCP to begin "congestion control"
unnecessarily, culminating in permanently decreased throughput.

Fixes: d7c0ef36bde03 ("ibmvnic: Free and re-allocate scrqs when tx/rx scrqs change")
Tested-by: Nick Child <nnac123@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Rick Lindsley 2022-07-02 03:37:12 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
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@ -5228,6 +5228,15 @@ static int ibmvnic_reset_init(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter, bool reset)
release_sub_crqs(adapter, 0);
rc = init_sub_crqs(adapter);
} else {
/* no need to reinitialize completely, but we do
* need to clean up transmits that were in flight
* when we processed the reset. Failure to do so
* will confound the upper layer, usually TCP, by
* creating the illusion of transmits that are
* awaiting completion.
*/
clean_tx_pools(adapter);
rc = reset_sub_crq_queues(adapter);
}
} else {