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authorMarko Ratkaj <marko.ratkaj@sartura.hr>2019-06-13 16:40:46 +0200
committerPetr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>2019-06-17 09:36:03 +0200
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mvebu: add kernel 4.19 support
Signed-off-by: Marko Ratkaj <marko.ratkaj@sartura.hr> [added sfp related patches from Russell King] Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz> [rebase; rework patches; separate and cleanup kernel configs; add espessobin dts; adjust venom dts] Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tomek_n@o2.pl>
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diff --git a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-4.19/300-mvneta-tx-queue-workaround.patch b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-4.19/300-mvneta-tx-queue-workaround.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+The hardware queue scheduling is apparently configured with fixed
+priorities, which creates a nasty fairness issue where traffic from one
+CPU can starve traffic from all other CPUs.
+
+Work around this issue by forcing all tx packets to go through one CPU,
+until this issue is fixed properly.
+
+Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
+---
+--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
++++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+@@ -4257,6 +4257,15 @@ static int mvneta_ethtool_set_eee(struct
+ return phylink_ethtool_set_eee(pp->phylink, eee);
+ }
+
++static u16 mvneta_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
++ struct net_device *sb_dev,
++ select_queue_fallback_t fallback)
++{
++ /* XXX: hardware queue scheduling is broken,
++ * use only one queue until it is fixed */
++ return 0;
++}
++
+ static const struct net_device_ops mvneta_netdev_ops = {
+ .ndo_open = mvneta_open,
+ .ndo_stop = mvneta_stop,
+@@ -4267,6 +4276,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mvnet
+ .ndo_fix_features = mvneta_fix_features,
+ .ndo_get_stats64 = mvneta_get_stats64,
+ .ndo_do_ioctl = mvneta_ioctl,
++ .ndo_select_queue = mvneta_select_queue,
+ };
+
+ static const struct ethtool_ops mvneta_eth_tool_ops = {