MFC r281006

When an mbuf allocation fails in the receive path, the mbuf containing the received packet is not sent to the host network stack and is reused again on the receive ring.  Remaining received packets in the ring are not processed in that invocation of bxe_rxeof() and defered to the task thread

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sys/dev/bxe/bxe.c b/sys/dev/bxe/bxe.c
index f66e216..5a56a46 100644
--- a/sys/dev/bxe/bxe.c
+++ b/sys/dev/bxe/bxe.c
@@ -3257,7 +3257,7 @@ bxe_rxeof(struct bxe_softc    *sc,
     uint16_t bd_cons, bd_prod, bd_prod_fw, comp_ring_cons;
     uint16_t hw_cq_cons, sw_cq_cons, sw_cq_prod;
     int rx_pkts = 0;
-    int rc;
+    int rc = 0;
 
     BXE_FP_RX_LOCK(fp);
 
@@ -3399,6 +3399,10 @@ bxe_rxeof(struct bxe_softc    *sc,
                                   (sc->max_rx_bufs != RX_BD_USABLE) ?
                                       bd_prod : bd_cons);
         if (rc != 0) {
+
+            /* we simply reuse the received mbuf and don't post it to the stack */
+            m = NULL;
+
             BLOGE(sc, "mbuf alloc fail for fp[%02d] rx chain (%d)\n",
                   fp->index, rc);
             fp->eth_q_stats.rx_soft_errors++;
@@ -3487,6 +3491,9 @@ next_cqe:
         sw_cq_cons = RCQ_NEXT(sw_cq_cons);
 
         /* limit spinning on the queue */
+        if (rc != 0)
+            break;
+
         if (rx_pkts == sc->rx_budget) {
             fp->eth_q_stats.rx_budget_reached++;
             break;