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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>2009-12-11 22:58:14 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-12-11 22:58:14 -0800
commit7227909340477c1e5225bb2df76cdcc95b5e1da1 (patch)
tree694e3ecd90b3bf9de6324a581ba4115d701095ee /drivers/net/igbvf
parentfef45f4ce221fc110f70716a00f40be697c5b254 (diff)
igbvf: avoid reset storms due to mailbox issues
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> This change makes it so that reset/interrupt storms can be avoided when there are mailbox issues. The new behavior is to only allow the device to trigger mailbox related resets only once every 10 seconds. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/igbvf')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h b/drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h
index 3d1ee7a8478..a1774b29d22 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h
+++ b/drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf.h
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ struct igbvf_adapter {
unsigned long led_status;
unsigned int flags;
+ unsigned long last_reset;
};
struct igbvf_info {
diff --git a/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c b/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c
index a127620dc65..e9dd95f136a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c
@@ -1469,6 +1469,8 @@ static void igbvf_reset(struct igbvf_adapter *adapter)
memcpy(netdev->perm_addr, adapter->hw.mac.addr,
netdev->addr_len);
}
+
+ adapter->last_reset = jiffies;
}
int igbvf_up(struct igbvf_adapter *adapter)
@@ -1812,11 +1814,15 @@ static bool igbvf_has_link(struct igbvf_adapter *adapter)
s32 ret_val = E1000_SUCCESS;
bool link_active;
+ /* If interface is down, stay link down */
+ if (test_bit(__IGBVF_DOWN, &adapter->state))
+ return false;
+
ret_val = hw->mac.ops.check_for_link(hw);
link_active = !hw->mac.get_link_status;
/* if check for link returns error we will need to reset */
- if (ret_val)
+ if (ret_val && time_after(jiffies, adapter->last_reset + (10 * HZ)))
schedule_work(&adapter->reset_task);
return link_active;