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[net,2/2] mlxsw: core: Use variable timeout for EMAD retries

Message ID 20201117173352.288491-3-idosch@idosch.org
State New
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Series mlxsw: Couple of fixes | expand

Commit Message

Ido Schimmel Nov. 17, 2020, 5:33 p.m. UTC 
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>

The driver sends Ethernet Management Datagram (EMAD) packets to the
device for configuration purposes and waits for up to 200ms for a reply.
A request is retried up to 5 times.

When the system is under heavy load, replies are not always processed in
time and EMAD transactions fail.

Make the process more robust to such delays by using exponential
backoff. First wait for up to 200ms, then retransmit and wait for up to
400ms and so on.

Fixes: caf7297e7ab5 ("mlxsw: core: Introduce support for asynchronous EMAD register access")
Reported-by: Denis Yulevich <denisyu@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Denis Yulevich <denisyu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
index 937b8e46f8c7..1a86535c4968 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
@@ -571,7 +571,8 @@  static void mlxsw_emad_trans_timeout_schedule(struct mlxsw_reg_trans *trans)
 	if (trans->core->fw_flash_in_progress)
 		timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(MLXSW_EMAD_TIMEOUT_DURING_FW_FLASH_MS);
 
-	queue_delayed_work(trans->core->emad_wq, &trans->timeout_dw, timeout);
+	queue_delayed_work(trans->core->emad_wq, &trans->timeout_dw,
+			   timeout << trans->retries);
 }
 
 static int mlxsw_emad_transmit(struct mlxsw_core *mlxsw_core,