One of the ways to reproduce the issue:
testpmd <EAL-OPTIONS> -- -i --txqflags=0
testpmd> set fwd txonly
testpmd> set txpkts 64,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4
testpmd> set txsplit rand
testpmd> start
After some time TX on ixgbe queue will hang,
and all packet transmission on that queue will stop.
This bug was first reported and investigated by
Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>:
"We can reproduce this issue when stressed the xmit path with a lot of highly
fragmented TCP frames (packets with up to 33 fragments with non-headers
fragments as small as 4 bytes) with all offload features enabled."
The root cause is that ixgbe_xmit_pkts() in some cases violates the HW rule
that the distance between TDs with RS bit set should not exceed 40 TDs.
>From the latest 82599 spec update:
"When WTHRESH is set to zero, the software device driver should set the RS bit
in the Tx descriptors with the EOP bit set and at least once in the 40
descriptors."
The fix is to make sure that the distance between TDs with RS bit set
would never exceed HW limit.
As part of that fix, tx_rs_thresh for ixgbe PMD is not allowed to be greater
then to 32 to comply with HW restrictions.
With that fix slight slowdown for the full-featured ixgbe TX path
might be observed (from our testing - up to 4%).
ixgbe simple TX path is unaffected by that patch.
Reported-by: Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
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