[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/thunderx: fix deadlock in Rx path' has been queued to stable release 17.02.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.02.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/28/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 26f7dfc513701c75ee8240c8c706440eb7a5490d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 00:11:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] net/thunderx: fix deadlock in Rx path

[ upstream commit b31eb105463fa1844c19fde382dd6bd294329831 ]

RBDR buffers are refilled when SW consumes the buffers from CQ.
This creates deadlock case when CQ buffers exhausted due to lack
of RBDR buffers. Fix is to refill the RBDR when rx_free_thresh
meet, irrespective of the number of CQ buffers consumed.

Fixes: e2d7fc9f0a24 ("net/thunderx: add single and multi-segment Rx")

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
---
 drivers/net/thunderx/nicvf_rxtx.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/thunderx/nicvf_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/thunderx/nicvf_rxtx.c
index fc43b74..87e9de1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/thunderx/nicvf_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/thunderx/nicvf_rxtx.c
@@ -469,11 +469,10 @@ nicvf_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 		rxq->head = cqe_head;
 		nicvf_addr_write(rxq->cq_door, to_process);
 		rxq->recv_buffers += to_process;
-		if (rxq->recv_buffers > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
-			rxq->recv_buffers -= nicvf_fill_rbdr(rxq,
-						rxq->rx_free_thresh);
-			NICVF_RX_ASSERT(rxq->recv_buffers >= 0);
-		}
+	}
+	if (rxq->recv_buffers > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
+		rxq->recv_buffers -= nicvf_fill_rbdr(rxq, rxq->rx_free_thresh);
+		NICVF_RX_ASSERT(rxq->recv_buffers >= 0);
 	}
 
 	return to_process;
@@ -563,11 +562,10 @@ nicvf_recv_pkts_multiseg(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf **rx_pkts,
 		rxq->head = cqe_head;
 		nicvf_addr_write(rxq->cq_door, to_process);
 		rxq->recv_buffers += buffers_consumed;
-		if (rxq->recv_buffers > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
-			rxq->recv_buffers -=
-				nicvf_fill_rbdr(rxq, rxq->rx_free_thresh);
-			NICVF_RX_ASSERT(rxq->recv_buffers >= 0);
-		}
+	}
+	if (rxq->recv_buffers > rxq->rx_free_thresh) {
+		rxq->recv_buffers -= nicvf_fill_rbdr(rxq, rxq->rx_free_thresh);
+		NICVF_RX_ASSERT(rxq->recv_buffers >= 0);
 	}
 
 	return to_process;
-- 
1.9.0