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Rohan G Thomas 45d100ee0d net: stmmac: dwmac: Disable flushing frames on Rx Buffer Unavailable
In Store and Forward mode, flushing frames when the receive buffer is
unavailable, can cause the MTL Rx FIFO to go out of sync. This results
in buffering of a few frames in the FIFO without triggering Rx DMA
from transferring the data to the system memory until another packet
is received. Once the issue happens, for a ping request, the packet is
forwarded to the system memory only after we receive another packet
and hece we observe a latency equivalent to the ping interval.

64 bytes from 192.168.2.100: seq=1 ttl=64 time=1000.344 ms

Also, we can observe constant gmacgrp_debug register value of
0x00000120, which indicates "Reading frame data".

The issue is not reproducible after disabling frame flushing when Rx
buffer is unavailable. But in that case, the Rx DMA enters a suspend
state due to buffer unavailability. To resume operation, software
must write to the receive_poll_demand register after adding new
descriptors, which reactivates the Rx DMA.

This issue is observed in the socfpga platforms which has dwmac1000 IP
like Arria 10, Cyclone V and Agilex 7. Issue is reproducible after
running iperf3 server at the DUT for UDP lower packet sizes.

Signed-off-by: Rohan G Thomas <rohan.g.thomas@altera.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@altera.com>
Tested-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126-a10_ext_fix-v1-1-d163507f646f@altera.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-11-27 13:05:24 +01:00
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certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized 2025-11-04 19:10:32 -08:00
Documentation netlink: specs: add big-endian byte-order for u32 IPv4 addresses 2025-11-26 17:14:17 -08:00
drivers net: stmmac: dwmac: Disable flushing frames on Rx Buffer Unavailable 2025-11-27 13:05:24 +01:00
fs tools: ynl-gen: add regeneration comment 2025-11-25 19:20:42 -08:00
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net phy: add hwtstamp_get callback to phy drivers 2025-11-26 16:56:33 -08:00
rust rust: Add -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference to bindgen_skip_c_flags 2025-11-10 08:37:06 +08:00
samples net: Convert proto_ops connect() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized 2025-11-04 19:10:32 -08:00
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.mailmap soc: fixes for 6.18, part 3 2025-11-19 09:36:04 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.