tree 5b46bae47a0cd42a04541b32b6da41f84345f6c6
parent b3422a314c27d2189c05b69cc1654b71315d3d21
author David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 1353845212 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1353968036 -0500

atm: br2684: Fix excessive queue bloat

There's really no excuse for an additional wmem_default of buffering
between the netdev queue and the ATM device. Two packets (one in-flight,
and one ready to send) ought to be fine. It's not as if it should take
long to get another from the netdev queue when we need it.

If necessary we can make the queue space configurable later, but I don't
think it's likely to be necessary.

cf. commit 9d02daf754238adac48fa075ee79e7edd3d79ed3 (pppoatm: Fix
excessive queue bloat) which did something very similar for PPPoATM.

Note that there is a tremendously unlikely race condition which may
result in qspace temporarily going negative. If a CPU running the
br2684_pop() function goes off into the weeds for a long period of time
after incrementing qspace to 1, but before calling netdev_wake_queue()...
and another CPU ends up calling br2684_start_xmit() and *stopping* the
queue again before the first CPU comes back, the netdev queue could
end up being woken when qspace has already reached zero.

An alternative approach to coping with this race would be to check in
br2684_start_xmit() for qspace==0 and return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, but just
using '> 0' and '< 1' for comparison instead of '== 0' and '!= 0' is
simpler. It just warranted a mention of *why* we do it that way...

Move the call to atmvcc->send() to happen *after* the accounting and
potentially stopping the netdev queue, in br2684_xmit_vcc(). This matters
if the ->send() call suffers an immediate failure, because it'll call
br2684_pop() with the offending skb before returning. We want that to
happen *after* we've done the initial accounting for the packet in
question. Also make it return an appropriate success/failure indication
while we're at it.

Tested by running 'ping -l 1000 bottomless.aaisp.net.uk' from within my
network, with only a single PPPoE-over-BR2684 link running. And after
setting txqueuelen on the nas0 interface to something low (5, in fact).
Before the patch, we'd see about 15 packets being queued and a resulting
latency of ~56ms being reached. After the patch, we see only about 8,
which is fairly much what we expect. And a max latency of ~36ms. On this
OpenWRT box, wmem_default is 163840.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>