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bse: do the TX ring space check before packet dequeue
On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 12:30:00PM +0000, Vitaliy Makkoveev wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 07:10:41PM +0000, Vitaliy Makkoveev wrote:
> > Subj. jmatthew@ pointed this while doing review of my previous bse(4)
> > diff. This early check removes possible bus_dmamap_unload() and dequeue
> > rollback in the output path.
> >
> > Also jmatthew@ pointed that the maximum TX segments count of 128 is too
> > big and proposed to limit limit it with 8. I checked others and found,
> > that NetBSD uses 128 as we do and FreeBSD uses 20, so I used 20. May be
> > this value is also too big, but it could be decreased at any moment.
> >
> > I'm running this diff without any issue more than 24 hours.
> >
>
> No issues after 5 days.
Looks good to me.
ok jmatthew@
>
> > Index: sys/dev/ic/bcmgenet.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/ic/bcmgenet.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.11
> > diff -u -p -r1.11 bcmgenet.c
> > --- sys/dev/ic/bcmgenet.c 15 Jan 2026 03:12:49 -0000 1.11
> > +++ sys/dev/ic/bcmgenet.c 17 Jan 2026 13:18:42 -0000
> > @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ CTASSERT(MCLBYTES == 2048);
> > #define TX_NEXT(n) TX_SKIP(n, 1)
> > #define RX_NEXT(n) (((n) + 1) & (GENET_DMA_DESC_COUNT - 1))
> >
> > -#define TX_MAX_SEGS 128
> > +#define TX_MAX_SEGS 20
> > #define TX_DESC_COUNT GENET_DMA_DESC_COUNT
> > #define RX_DESC_COUNT GENET_DMA_DESC_COUNT
> > #define MII_BUSY_RETRY 1000
> > @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ int
> > genet_setup_txbuf(struct genet_softc *sc, int index, struct mbuf *m)
> > {
> > bus_dma_segment_t *segs;
> > - int error, queued, nsegs, cur, i;
> > + int error, nsegs, cur, i;
> > uint32_t flags;
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -232,13 +232,6 @@ genet_setup_txbuf(struct genet_softc *sc
> >
> > segs = sc->sc_tx.buf_map[index].map->dm_segs;
> > nsegs = sc->sc_tx.buf_map[index].map->dm_nsegs;
> > - queued = (sc->sc_tx.pidx - sc->sc_tx.cidx) & 0xffff;
> > -
> > - if (queued >= GENET_DMA_DESC_COUNT - nsegs) {
> > - bus_dmamap_unload(sc->sc_tx.buf_tag,
> > - sc->sc_tx.buf_map[index].map);
> > - return -1;
> > - }
> >
> > flags = GENET_TX_DESC_STATUS_SOP |
> > GENET_TX_DESC_STATUS_CRC |
> > @@ -784,29 +777,27 @@ genet_qstart(struct ifqueue *ifq)
> > struct genet_softc *sc = ifp->if_softc;
> > struct mbuf *m;
> > const int qid = GENET_DMA_DEFAULT_QUEUE;
> > - int nsegs, index, cnt;
> > + int queued, nsegs, index, cnt;
> >
> > index = sc->sc_tx.pidx & (TX_DESC_COUNT - 1);
> > cnt = 0;
> >
> > for (;;) {
> > - m = ifq_deq_begin(&ifp->if_snd);
> > + queued = (sc->sc_tx.pidx - sc->sc_tx.cidx) & 0xffff;
> > + if (queued >= TX_DESC_COUNT - TX_MAX_SEGS)
> > + break;
> > +
> > + m = ifq_dequeue(&ifp->if_snd);
> > if (m == NULL)
> > break;
> >
> > nsegs = genet_setup_txbuf(sc, index, m);
> > - if (nsegs == -1) {
> > - ifq_deq_rollback(&ifp->if_snd, m);
> > - ifq_set_oactive(&ifp->if_snd);
> > - break;
> > - }
> > if (nsegs == 0) {
> > - ifq_deq_commit(&ifp->if_snd, m);
> > m_freem(m);
> > ifp->if_oerrors++;
> > continue;
> > }
> > - ifq_deq_commit(&ifp->if_snd, m);
> > +
> > if (ifp->if_bpf)
> > bpf_mtap(ifp->if_bpf, m, BPF_DIRECTION_OUT);
> >
bse: do the TX ring space check before packet dequeue