Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net: hns3: default enable tx bounce buffer when smmu enabled

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 05:41:36PM +0800, Jijie Shao wrote:
> 
> on 2025/7/5 0:31, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 09:09:01PM +0800, Jijie Shao wrote:
> > > The SMMU engine on HIP09 chip has a hardware issue.
> > > SMMU pagetable prefetch features may prefetch and use a invalid PTE
> > > even the PTE is valid at that time. This will cause the device trigger
> > > fake pagefaults. The solution is to avoid prefetching by adding a
> > > SYNC command when smmu mapping a iova. But the performance of nic has a
> > > sharp drop. Then we do this workaround, always enable tx bounce buffer,
> > > avoid mapping/unmapping on TX path.
> > > 
> > > This issue only affects HNS3, so we always enable
> > > tx bounce buffer when smmu enabled to improve performance.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 295ba232a8c3 ("net: hns3: add device version to replace pci revision")
> > The cited commit may be a pre-requisite for this patch
> > to check HNAE3_DEVICE_VERSION_V3. But it seems to me that the problem
> > being addressed existed before the cited commit. If so, I think a different
> > Fixes tag is appropriate.
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >   .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c   | 31 +++++++++++++++++
> > >   .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h   |  2 ++
> > >   .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_ethtool.c    | 33 +++++++++++++++++++
> > It seems to me that the hns3_ethtool.c changes a) are not a requirement
> > for the work-around introduced by this patch and b) may introduce
> > complex behaviour between the effect of ethtool copybreak settings
> > and the enablement/non-enablement of the work-around.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to make a more minimal fix for net, that
> > omits the ethtool changes. And then follow-up with them for net-next
> > once the fix is present there?
> 
> I will discuss your suggestion with my team.

Thanks, much appreciated.