ixgbe: rework Tx hang detection to fix reoccurring false Tx hangs
The Tx hang logic has been known to detect false hangs when the device is receiving pause frames or has delayed processing for some other reason. This patch makes the logic more robust and resolves these known issues. The old logic checked to see if the device was paused by querying the HW then the hang logic was aborted if the device was currently paused. This check was racy because the device could have been in the pause state any time up to this check. The other operation of the hang logic is to verify the Tx ring is still advancing the old logic checked the EOP timestamp. This is not sufficient to determine the ring is not advancing but only infers that it may be moving slowly. Here we add logic to track the number of completed Tx descriptors and use the adapter stats to check if any pause frames have been received since the previous Tx hang check. This way we avoid racing with the HW register and do not detect false hangs if the ring is advancing slowly. This patch is primarily the work of Jesse Brandeburg. I clean it up some and fixed the PFC checking. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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