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net: stmmac: dwmac: Disable flushing frames on Rx Buffer Unavailable
In Store and Forward mode, flushing frames when the receive buffer is
unavailable, can cause the MTL Rx FIFO to go out of sync. This results
in buffering of a few frames in the FIFO without triggering Rx DMA
from transferring the data to the system memory until another packet
is received. Once the issue happens, for a ping request, the packet is
forwarded to the system memory only after we receive another packet
and hece we observe a latency equivalent to the ping interval.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.100: seq=1 ttl=64 time=1000.344 ms
Also, we can observe constant gmacgrp_debug register value of
0x00000120, which indicates "Reading frame data".
The issue is not reproducible after disabling frame flushing when Rx
buffer is unavailable. But in that case, the Rx DMA enters a suspend
state due to buffer unavailability. To resume operation, software
must write to the receive_poll_demand register after adding new
descriptors, which reactivates the Rx DMA.
This issue is observed in the socfpga platforms which has dwmac1000 IP
like Arria 10, Cyclone V and Agilex 7. Issue is reproducible after
running iperf3 server at the DUT for UDP lower packet sizes.
Signed-off-by: Rohan G Thomas <rohan.g.thomas@altera.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@altera.com>
Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126-a10_ext_fix-v1-1-d163507f646f@altera.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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