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When testing with a background iperf pushing 1Gbit/sec traffic and running
both ifconfig and netstat to collect statistics, some deadlocks occurred.
Ifconfig and netstat will call nv_get_stats64 to get software xmit/recv
statistics. In the commit f5d827aece36 ("forcedeth: implement
ndo_get_stats64() API"), the normal tx/rx variables is to collect tx/rx
statistics. The fix is to replace normal tx/rx variables with per
cpu 64-bit variable to collect xmit/recv statistics. The per cpu variable
will avoid deadlocks and provide fast efficient statistics updates.
In nv_probe, the per cpu variable is initialized. In nv_remove, this
per cpu variable is freed.
In xmit/recv process, this per cpu variable will be updated.
In nv_get_stats64, this per cpu variable on each cpu is added up. Then
the driver can get xmit/recv packets statistics.
A test runs for several days with this commit, the deadlocks disappear
and the performance is better.
Tested:
- iperf SMP x86_64 ->
Client connecting to 1.1.1.108, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 1.1.1.105 port 38888 connected with 1.1.1.108 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.10 GBytes 943 Mbits/sec
ifconfig results:
enp0s9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:28:6f:de:0f
inet addr:1.1.1.105 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5774764531 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:633534193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7646159340904 (7.6 TB) TX bytes:11425340407722 (11.4 TB)
netstat results:
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
...
enp0s9 1500 0 5774764531 0 0 0 633534193 0 0 0 BMRU
...
Fixes: f5d827aece36 ("forcedeth: implement ndo_get_stats64() API")
CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
CC: JUNXIAO_BI <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Nan san <nan.1986san@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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